Walk on the beach #19 Crab Hole @ Major Traditional Cache
Walk on the beach #19 Crab Hole @ Major
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Take a walk on the world's most famous beach. #19 in our series and as with the others this one us in a high muggle area so use stealth in your hunt and retrieval. Best times early morning and evenings. BYOP. Contains code for WOTB #23 GC62WHE.
Congrats again to jellob3p0 on the FTF! This walkover was demolished and a new one constructed. This is a new version cache so if you found it before feel welcome to find it again.
Ghost crabs, also called Sand crabs, are so named because of their ability to blend into the sandy beaches and dunes in which they live. Six strong legs are capable of carrying Ghost crabs along at speeds up to 10 mph, allowing them to disappear quickly from sight (yet another reason for the name). During the day, they spend most of their time housekeeping and digging their burrows. Extending from the carapace, or top section of exoskeleton, are two black eyes that are able to see 360 degrees simultaneously; however, they are unable to see directly overhead. You can often spot ghost crabs at night, which is when they feed on other crabs, clams, lizards, insects and detritus. Ghost crabs make golf ball-sized entrance holes in the dry sand. These tunnels can go deeper than three to four feet, extending to the water table below. Their sandy homes open into a chamber which ghost crabs design for a space in which to turn-around. Ghost crabs will hibernate in their burrows during the winter, “holding their breath” for up to six weeks by storing oxygen in special sacs near their gills. When not hibernating, they will periodically wet their gills in order to filter oxygen from the sea or the water at the bottom of their burrows. Although they cannot swim, they sometimes enter the shallows, not only to replenish water and oxygen, but to escape predators, such as birds and raccoons. Keep your eyes open, and you just might catch a glimpse of The World's Most Famous “ghosts.” You are seeking a bison tube within a host. The host should be a quick find, coaxing the crab out of his hole may take a minute or two.
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