Endless Fun

Published By: Southbay magazine

For a while as a kid, crabs were my favorite underwater sea creature. I know. Strange. Most kids like whales, sharks, dolphins. But me? Crabs. Why, you ask? Let me attempt to explain …

My mom would take me to the Redondo Pier when I was a child. There was a seafood market that had a series of outdoor tanks filled to the brim with crabs. They were piled on top of one another like bricks making up a wall. They would get stacked from the bottom of the tank all the way to the top, with their claws breaking the water’s surface and positioned at about eye level. So for a 6-year-old boy, it provided plenty of opportunity for gazing and curiosity.