Bright red crabs like this one number in the tens of millions here on Christmas Island, a territory of Australia located in the Indian Ocean. It’s warm on the island this time of year, and these crabs are migrating to the sea, where they will mate and spawn. The event is quite a spectacle—onlookers will see rivers of crabs, thousands of them at a time climbing over fences and crossing roads on their journey, which attracts tourists to the remote destination. This isle itself was named by an English sea captain who discovered the destination on Christmas Day of 1643.
Feeling crabby?
Today in History
More Desktop Wallpapers:
-
Skagit Valley Tulip Festival
-
Star Wars Day
-
An endless journey
-
Every day is Napping Day for this screech owl
-
Brown-throated three-toed sloth in cecropia tree, Costa Rica
-
Feelin groovy on Record Store Day
-
Jan van Eyckplein in Bruges, Belgium
-
Palouse farmland, Washington state
-
Bryce Canyon National Park turns 100
-
Let s face it: It s World Emoji Day
-
World Bamboo Day
-
The Spirit of Harlem by Louis Delsarte
-
Bridge of Hillsborough County
-
Floating temples in the Land of Smiles
-
Mountain goats
-
A gentle wind fills this sail
-
The Vestibule at Diocletian s Palace, Split, Croatia
-
Fall comes to Pando
-
Trunks stick together
-
Surfer s paradise
-
Winter solstice
-
Fall comes to the Last Frontier
-
Defying gravity on a swing ride
-
Celebrate International Women’s Day
-
International Day for Biological Diversity
-
The snows of Fuji
-
A notorious gunfight that was incorrectly named
-
Working for that cliffside view
-
Illuminated Uluru
-
A universe underground