Nice crab from Isle of Sheppey

[gremlinshow]

Today I found myself hurrying along to my favourite hunting grounds on the Isle of Sheppey the tide was already well on it's way in and I knew I would only have a short window before I would get cut off by the tide. This did not however stop me from using almost all of that window getting covered in mud.

With only a couple of worn sharks teeth and not much else in my pocket pickings were looking rather slim.

As I started my brisk walk back I came upon an old Shoe that had been washed up on the beach. The shoe was pointing in the direction of the incoming tide and the clay standing in its path. Taking this as a signal I chose to follow it's direction out to the waters edge and almost immediately came across a rather nice crab nodule as attached. I have so far spent around an hour prepping it and it is turning out to be fairly complete! It is also by some margin the biggest crab I have found so far :-)

All in all not bad for a rushed hunt! :-)

[jpc]

way cool...

[FossilDAWG]

Excellent crab!

Don

[Auspex]

Nice indeed

[PaleoWilliam]

Nice!

[ynot]

Looks good, very nice find!

Can not wait to see the finished product!

Tony

[squali]

Excellent! You crab concretion guys amaze me.

[gremlinshow]

Thanks for all the nice comments. :-) I cant wait to see this when ive removed as much of the matrix as possible!

I just hope that it doesn't get too hard to prep like many of the others I have.

Can't wait until I can afford to invest in some better tools!

[RJB]

What JPC said. "Way Cool".

RB

[Khyssa]

Great find!