cart repair
seldom seen beaches
there really is a horseshoe crab here, trust me
Doing some glass work on the Club's decrepit carts, trying to squeeze another couple years duty out of them. While wating for the pox to kick, temps in the mid-high 60s, I put a kayak in to kill some time while the chemicals did their work.
One of the lower tides I've seen on Blackhole Creek and it's a pleasure beaching the boat and taking a leisurely ankle-deep wade in water that's usually 2 or 3 feet deep. The water didn't feel all that cold, which was a nice surprise. Other than that, it was a fairly unextraordinary paddle.
Until I was back on the dock, putting the kayak away. I noticed something in the water (besides the usual water snakes) and did a double-take. Holy crappo, it's a horseshoe crab! What the heck is a limulus doing in Blackhole Creek in mid-April?
Well, according to wiki, "Atlantic horseshoe crabs can be seen in waters that range from brackish (almost fresh water) to hypersaline (almost twice the salinity of sea water)"
Ok, but I've never seen one this far up in any brackish part of the upper bay.