The Search for Hermit Crabs

          For the past week me and my group went to Tangisan Beach to search for hermit crabs for our Mark and Recapture study, which is basically taking a group from an area and counting them then coming back a few days later and count the specimens in the area. The road going there was really rough and had a  lot of potholes (my poor tires) and I almost got lost because I took the wrong turn and ended up in Ritidian. Anyway on the first day we went in the morning, it was really hot and well I was wearing a sweater which would explain why I sweated a lot. We found around 27 hermit crabs in our 286 sqm area. There were ones as big as a golf ball and really small ones the size of your pinky nail. I had to paint their shells and legs with nail polish, which  we though was toxic to hermit crabs, they looked really pretty afterwards. Then today we went to look for them again but we did not find a single one. We were afraid they either died or moved really far away. I guess we'll have to wait and see next time.