Last week I joined the Darwin Harbour Clean Up Day, and headed out on the early ferry to Mandorah, a small community that is a short 15 minute ferry ride from the Darwin CBD, though by car it’s closer to 2 hours. It’s always a sad surprise to see how much trash you can collect, even on very remote beaches with a tiny local population.
There is a pretty amazing assortment of shells on some of the more remote beaches around the Top End, so I tried to squeeze in a little shell collecting on the side too. Unfortunately for me, these shells are also prime real estate for hermit crabs and almost every shell I picked up was already occupied. And for anyone that’s never seen one, this is what a hermit crab party looks like. 
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