My exploration trip today goes to a swampy shoreline, trekking onto the mudflat on low tide. The place is pretty big and I didn't have time to cover all the areas. Got to go back there another day.
Here's some crabs I saw today:
A crab with red claws pointing inwards
A smaller crab with a lunic shaped claw
A pretty big porcelain crab
A forceps crab, related to the thunder crab
A pair of flower crabs copulating
Now for some prawns....
This prawn is very common there, infact anywhere. Not quite sure of its name though. Is it an estuarine prawn?
I dug under a rock and found this little shrimp...I believe it's called a ghost shrimp. The walls of its burrow is very smooth, and it's a powerful digger. I can feel it when it tries to dig in between my fingers. Another interesting observation is that it doesn't seem to like water. I tried placing it into the water, but it keeps climbing back onto the shore on dry land.
I saw quite a few peh chee too but they're hard to catch with my small scoop net, I finally managed to catch the smaller ones. The place looks pretty good for netcasting.
I also caught this tiny shrimp (~2cm) that looks a lot like those small shrimps we used for fishing (Heh Beoh). It has interesting right angled feelers.
Collected a few snails as well, these are those 'zut zut' we can eat from hawker centres ya?
Lots of discarded clam shells from a someone's feast . These clams are big.
Here's some pics of the place to share with, but don't ask me where is this. I don't fish there myself.
Mudflat Exploration
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