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Nov 17, 09 Comments Off
 Common Curacao Land Snails Good evening friends, feeling much better today, I took the dogs on a two hour hike along the shores of Saint Joris bay this morning equipped with a camera, tripod and a macro lens. I had so many replies about the last snail photo I sent out a few days ago that I figured what the heck send some more. In fact two different readers asked me how many different snails do we have on the island, my answer to that question, a lot!! I think what I am going to do is each week starting now send you one new and different species of snail, let’s just see how many I can find, might be kind of fun?? Well this is hands down the most common of all the Curacao snails, they cover everything in the desert and I am not kidding! There are so many in fact that wherever you walk in the desert the ground is white with empty shells! They cling to every rock, blade of grass, tree, aluminum can, and cactus in the desert, it’s really quite an amazing sight. These are mainly land snails and seem to stay dormant until it rains then they are really busy walking and climbing all over everything! To my amazement the locals don’t use the empty shells for anything, I could think of 20 different arts and crafts these things would be great for because the shells are hard as rock!! The empty shells that lay on the ground are a favorite shell of the hermit crabs but only for the babies as the shell itself is about the same size as you see it here in the photo.
I had a fast paced day of doing so many odds and ends. The Scuba Diver magazine finally arrived here in Curacao so that means you all should be able to find in anywhere in the States now so get out there and grab your copy, the helicopter shot with Mark is awesome!! I worked on my driftwood wood for about an hour until I was sweating so bad I had to go take another shower!
That’s about it for tonight, I am tired and off to bed! Take care, Barry
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