Guess who's back?!! This morning, millions of tiny baby Christmas Island red crabs have started to drift up onto the shoreline around this incredible island! A month ago, the adult crabs all spawned billions of eggs into the sea, and these little guys have been drifting around in the ocean’s currents hoping that they don’t get eaten by lurking whale sharks and also hoping that this will be one of the years when the currents miraculously bring them back to the island just as they start to transform from free-swimming little Megalopes into mini crabs! These guys are the lucky survivors, clambering ashore to head up into the jungle to live out their lives as land crabs, cleaning the forest floor. After they mature in about 5 years, these guys will join the 50-million adult red crabs in their annual migration down to the sea to spawn, in a spectacular event Sir David Attenborough describes as one of the Top 10 natural wonders on Earth. Maybe visit next Dec/Jan/Feb and stay at the luxurious new eco-retreat Swell Lodge on the coast inside the national park to be right in the heart of this extraordinary event!

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