Unexpected visitors!

So the other day when we went to the bay, we found some really exotic, scary different looking sea shells and since we have been in the habit of collecting them, we decided we would bring them home. After I washed all the sand off of them, I set them in the sink to dry, and thought nothing else of them, until...I heard some banging in the kitchen. When I went to see what the noise was all about, I discovered hermit crabs in both sea shells. Well, since we didn't have time to take them back to the bay that night, we left them in the sink all night. This probably wasn't a good idea because we could hear them banging throughout the night, anyways, we took them back to the bay the next day. It was a fun visit with the hermit crabs, but we are glad they are now back where they belong.

These pictures don't do justice for how big the crabs actually were...they were Gigantic...I don't know how they managed to cram themselves inside a relatively small shell.