Mating full-grown horseshoe crabs (smaller than our local variety)--we found many others alive and dead trapped in freshly washed -up nets/paralleling their difficulties at home. Their eggs are an important food source for shorebirds and they must avoid hazards of nature and man for 11(yes, eleven) years before they reach maturity to reproduce the next generation----a fact that surprised me.A narite--a tree snail.
A Dog-faced watersnake--not quite twice the diameter of a pencil--docile and non-posonous (I was told but didn't test).
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