It was unbelievable. Hundreds of them everywhere. It was weird, funny and slightly creepy but I felt that i was in a nature programme. The kids thought the whole thing was hillarious and loved finding squashed crabs down at their school the next morning.
The colorful “Tajalines” or Land Crabs come up from their underground homes in droves at the beginning of rainy season.
They travel from their inland burrows to the coast where they lay their eggs. They walk a straight line on their way to the beach, passing through bedrooms and kitchens and anything else in their way.
Dahlia Nahome is an ex-London city girl who moved to the Costa Rican jungle with her husband and two children. She was formerly the head of account management at a top 10 London advertising agency but now runs www.costaricanvacation.com and also enjoys writing about the Nicoya Peninsula.
