Don’t come-a-knockin’! A couple summers ago I came across these two on a Cape Cod Beach while photographing a sunrise with cousin Wendy and friend Helen. We thought wow, we’ve never seen horseshoe crabs on land and what a beautiful pattern they are making and so I began to photograph them. We speculated a bit on what they may be doing (maybe one is hurt and it’s friend is helping it back to water?) but confirmed our suspicions after GTS’ing it (googling that sh&$) on our return. Anyone ever witness this before? It doesn’t matter what their little crawl of shame was…it was still a cool thing to see. I guess I need to get out more!
Good Morning Gloucester 
I grew up on Long Beach Island in New Jersey. When I was a younger kid, (40-50 years ago) we would see maybe a hundred pairs (sometimes 3-somes) of breeding horseshoe crabs at a time at the tideline of the sand beach on the Barnegat Bay side of the Island.
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There were many on Niles beach when I was a kid. Sadly they are a rare sight on Cape Ann these days. I did see one very big one on Cape Cod about three years ago. LOVE horseshoe crabs!
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The last few times I’ve seen them was on Cape cod too!
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When I was a young lad that way there were loads of these in the coves on the sand areas and once male hooked on ride the storm out the egg roll male and female vital for circle of life birds and fish also. We were told this by the old timers too: Most of this nesting activity takes place during high tides in the three days before and after a new or full moon.
🙂 Dave & Kim 🙂
Moon River (instrumental) – Henry Mancini
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Sadly we don’t see as many around as we used to!
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Yes some change is not too good! 😦 Dave & Kim:-(
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