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One of the more colorful creatures we saw were the Sally Lightfoot crabs. They were on every rocky, windy shoreline we came across and stood out spectacularly against the black lava rock. Generally if there were a few, there were dozens and dozens. Apparently there is some confusion about these guys. There is a similar crab elsewhere in the world but the true Sally Lightfoot Crab is the Grapsus grapsus, and found in the cooler waters of the Galapagos Islands.
These crabs are omnivores and scavengers, mostly eating detritus. Yet, if big enough they can catch small invertebrates and even small fish. Like every other animal we saw, they didn’t even blink their beady little eyes as we walked over and around them.
