It's been blisteringly hot for the last few days and, when it is like that we sometimes knock off working on the house around 4pm and head off to the beach.
This is our favourite within walking distance (or less than 5 minutes drive) and we usually have the whole beach to ourselves in the late afternoon, don't call the RSPCA when you see the photos, we take a shade tent for Monty but he just chose not to go in it today.
At about 6 o'clock, Monty sprang to his feet and I looked up to see what had caught his attention. The whole beach seemed to be moving and, as we looked closer we saw thousands of Soldier Crabs had popped up from under the sand and were scuttling around in little groups. They are very pretty (apparently tasty too when they are bigger) whenever we walked towards any they would bury themselves under the sand again. We thought they were heading for the sea but they kept changing direction so we drew the conclusion they were just scuttling for the sake of it.
Hopefully they will repeat the performance at the weekend so we can show Zoe.