crab sand artisan
deftly creates impression
daily Rorschach test
sandy crab canvas
emphemeral art display
vanishes with the tide
slapdash tide washes
abstract works of crab sand art
away forever
I took these photos recently of the holes and sand balls made by the Sand Bubbler Crab at Woodgate Beach, Queensland, Australia.
Gabe Feathers McGee 
A bit like blogging really! But with fewer followers… 🙂 Nice work, GB!
That’s about right Stafford – Ha! Thanks 😉
wow, those really do look like works of art! Well captured!
Juliet
http://craftygreenpoet.blogspot.com
Thanks craftygreenpoet – they are endlessly fascinating and most days, at low tide, the beach is covered in what appears an infinite number of them.
I always look first at the images and thought that you were pretty good at sand art, I could see so many things in them!
Hahahaha!!! No, I didn’t do it 😉 but I wish I could – love to be able to make those perfect little balls Ben.
Just love the photos of the sand art and the excellent words you matched with them.
Thank you slpmartin – it was fun 🙂
They are amazing. The last two look like real woodcuts. The patterns are incredibly intricate. I wonder if the crabs know how arty they are being when they pop in and out of the sand. Now I want to go to your beach and watch the sand art emerge all day!
They do – the balls can look like dips in a certain light. Tessa is a bit scared of the actual bubbler crabs – one day we were at the estuary and there were hundreds of them moving enmasse, like the beach was a living creature. You must come to visit one day and we will watch crab art.
fascinating trail-drawings of tiny creatures, and wonderful photos gabrielle!
Thanks tipota 🙂
Beautiful words and images Gabe. The ocean… such an endless wealth of poetry…
Yes it is, though I’m not as obsessed as you are 😉
Like the earthwork art by, say, Robert Smithson,(Spiral Jetty) only in miniature and by non-human little creatures who have no conception of art but still make it.
I hadn’t seen that before – Ha!
I’m always amazed by the symmetry found in nature – you think things would be more chaotic than they are. Thanks squirrel.
just goes to show that homo sapiens don’t have all the talent, nature’s got some other heavy duty artists among her myriads!
That’s for sure Aletha 🙂