Tata Telephone Building at Bidhan Nagar

The Lonely Crab

 

Tajpur a city famous for its beach and weather, thousands or more crabs are found in Tajpur. Find out out why this one is different!!

This one was ALONE!!
We never want to be alone, no matter how your daughter shouts at you “leave me alone”, well she doesn”t mean it. Crabs like this one don”t hang alone. They stay in groups, dig holes in the sand and just keep peeking from there. There are crabs everywhere on the beach of Tajpur. Not sure if they are also found on Digha considering the distance between these places are very nominal. Fishermen here seem to ignore them, they are smart, these are not fish Crabs through they eyes of a layman of biology. We actually thought it was a spider not very different the one we find in our bathroom. Don”t they call the spiders which are found in sea “CRABS”. Ok, we are stupid.
They”re of bright red color are very attractive and you will spot them when you step on the beach. You will run at them with your camera and in a flash they are gone. We were trying hard to click some pics of these red crabs and there we found this one sitting still. He is actually injured and may be its friends left him. It didn”t had all the legs that it was supposed to have. So it was not fast as others and I guess for the same reason it wasn”t able to dig a hole and hide. We let be itself hoping that it will heal itself. Tips while taking picture of Crabs @ Tajpur: If you see the blog image you will see some dead trees, branches etc, we happened to found some crabs there but as mentioned above they picked the vibrations from our footsteps and ran into their homes. So what did we do? We sit on top of the dead trees just above the ground and waited for them to come out. Just in a minutes, they were all out for a party and we clicked as much as we could. From Kolkata it is very easy to reach Tajpur or Digha. You will find buses/Trains from Kolkata to Digha or you can hire a car. For weekend stress reliever these spots are very good. In case you do not see any natural things to stay clear of the ground, get a chair from the hotel, place it near the crabs and enjoy. Golden sand will be c0vered red by them.