Clonea Strand in The Rain

Finds from a few days ago on Clonea Strand when the grey skies and persistent rain made the colours sing.  I even stopped looking for plastic for a little while and took in the natural beauties of the sea weed and crab claws, in particular this gorgeous one.  There are certain times of the year when crab claws seem to be washed in all the time and this is one of them and the range of colours from yellow to dove grey and bright red are wonderful.

Crab Carnage

It was crab carnage last week at Ballydowane.  There had been some stormy weather but nothing to account for the amount of whole crabs, legs, claws, and shells that I found all over Ballydowane.  I also saw my first whole Velvet Swimming Crab with their lovely, flattened back legs for swimming.  The colours were amazing, rosy pinks, vivid oranges, purple and electric blue.

Edible crab

Crab skeleton

Velvet Swimming Crab