Under the light of the September full moon, the Blatts ventured out to the narrow strip of land in Cancun that separates the lagoon from the ocean to help transfer the female blue crabs across a busy road. Sounds quite romantic, doesn't it? Actually, the traffic was whizzing by and we hand to stomp through the jungle
undergrowth while being attacked by mosquitoes until we spotted a terrified blue crab. Then we threw a bucket over it and scooped it up. The kids loved it, though, and neither the gloom of night, the torrential downpour, nor the late hour deterred their enthusiasm. Two got away, but we captured a third. I mean we saved a third. The best part was, though, that upon returning to the blue crab HQ, our crab was identified as a female with a belly full of eggs. Our work was done.
Under the light of the September full moon, the Blatts ventured out to the narrow strip of land in Cancun that separates the lagoon from the ocean to help transfer the female blue crabs across a busy road. Sounds quite romantic, doesn't it? Actually, the traffic was whizzing by and we hand to stomp through the jungle 
undergrowth while being attacked by mosquitoes until we spotted a terrified blue crab. Then we threw a bucket over it and scooped it up. The kids loved it, though, and neither the gloom of night, the torrential downpour, nor the late hour deterred their enthusiasm. Two got away, but we captured a third. I mean we saved a third. The best part was, though, that upon returning to the blue crab HQ, our crab was identified as a female with a belly full of eggs. Our work was done.
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