Shot with A71 64 Mb lens.
#withgalaxy
With their small size, around 1 cm, combined with their sand coloured body, the sand bubbler crabs aka sand artists could be easily missed, but its very unlikely you'll miss the sophisticated sand patterns they create around their hide-out on the beach. These patterns are created when these crabs are looking for food in the damp sand; microscopic life called meiofauna. They work at impressive speed passing sand grains into their mouth, filtering out the nutrients and kicking aside the waste rolled into little cleaned sand grain balls. By doing so, they avoid sifting the same sand twice. The crab will clean every grain of sand radially within a meter of its burrow, creating tiny galaxy-like drawings.
The crabs are working relentlessly because they can only sieve the sand for food when it is damp. Once high tide returns, they simply retreat to their holes and await the receding tide in a bubble of air. You can almost tell how long the tide has been out by the patterns of their sand balls. The more intricate the pattern of sand balls, the longer the tide has been out. Therfore, It appears that these patterns were created just after the high tide phase of night time and I shot these using Galaxy A71 at Super high 64 MP resolution just after the sunrise. (info source:https://blog.blueotwo.com/)
