Apart from beaches, hammocks, corals, fish – for viewing as well as for eating – , variable-experience dive resorts and reminiscing about the recent Indonesian history, the Togian Islands still had something else to offer. Although the rare Coconut Crab – a creature with arms of up to 90 cms, and an overall weight of up to 4 kg – still eluded us, we did encounter several other crabs with varying arms. As you may have expected, this website does take an interest in crabs, as a side issue only, of course. And if nothing else, the pictures at least balance some of the more serious thoughts of the previous entry.
next: moving on to Gorontalo
the Crab also met some fellow creatures, an unarmed one
one armed with somebody else’s shell (apparently called a hermit crab)
and this one, no arms at all, it looks
no match for a very well armed crab
and some crabs have a different role in life altogether
