BYC Café

[CapricornFarm]

46 here wetest month on record.

We're having 90s for the next few days!

 

[DobieLover]

We're having 90s for the next few days!

Here too. It's going to be pushing 100 tomorrow.

 

[DobieLover]

Good morning Cafe. Coffee is ready.

The sky looked like this by the time I'd finished getting the coffee ready and shot out the door.

I took Bella only with me and we started heading south along the beach while I waited for the sunrise. I flipped 150 crabs before the sky looked like this.

This guy is nearly handicapped with the mussel clumps on his hood.

These are the eggs they are laying.

I've never seen them balled like this. I wonder if this clump has even been fertilized. I saw two more like this.

Sometimes when I flip them they feel particularly threatened and clamp down their abdominal flap and tuck their tail. When they do that they can't get onto the sand and crawl away. This spot at the joint where the abdominal flap folds down is where they draw blood from them.

They have blue blood.

They are used in the medical industry a lot. Here is an article about how they were used to help develop the covid vaccines. They are threatened and this is one of the biggest reasons why I like to spend my mornings flipping them over to help them survive.

 

[Sally PB]

^^ Very interesting!

 

[Isadora]

Good morning Cafe. Coffee is ready.

The sky looked like this by the time I'd finished getting the coffee ready and shot out the door.
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I took Bella only with me and we started heading south along the beach while I waited for the sunrise. I flipped 150 crabs before the sky looked like this.
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This guy is nearly handicapped with the mussel clumps on his hood.
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These are the eggs they are laying.
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I've never seen them balled like this. I wonder if this clump has even been fertilized. I saw two more like this.
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Sometimes when I flip them they feel particularly threatened and clamp down their abdominal flap and tuck their tail. When they do that they can't get onto the sand and crawl away. This spot at the joint where the abdominal flap folds down is where they draw blood from them.
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They have blue blood.
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They are used in the medical industry a lot. Here is an article about how they were used to help develop the covid vaccines. They are threatened and this is one of the biggest reasons why I like to spend my mornings flipping them over to help them survive.

^^ Very interesting!

I remember watching a documentary years and years ago when I was a kid about how horseshoe crabs are used in cancer research.

 

[Sally PB]

Looks like the storms will hold off until late afternoon here. So I'll get some gardening done today after all.

 

[Mtn Margie]

Thanks for the coffee! Nice pics, DL!
106F and down to 90F is just wrong!
I have one inch of snow so far...

 

[DobieLover]

Osprey dining table.

 

[Mtn Margie]

I would think those fish heads would be taken by something else!

 

[bruceha2000]

Right smack dab in front of the house I'm renting.

Often ownership ends at the high tide line, beyond that the beach is public.