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Sandflat Crab

Tiny crabs on Fish Hoek Beach - in the surf on the sandy part. The "tooth" at the edge of the carapace point to it being a Sandflat Crab. I think they had been washed down the river which was flowing strongly and back onto the sandy beach. Carapace about 7 mm across.

Scaevola plumieri at Umhlanga

Succulent with extra ordinary shaped white flowers, with the calyx and corolla tubes apparently fused, together split open very deep at the upper side, both with five lobes, corolla white with a yellowish tube with curly hairs, five irregularly curled sta