We have a few things that we do every time we go to the beach. Crab hunting is one of those things. It's so funny to watch the kids run around like mad chasing down little sand crabs with their flashlights shining everywhere.

We have to wait til dusk to go looking since the crabs only come out at that time. And everybody has their own flashlight. Once they find one, they pick it up carefully so as not to get pinched. I don't like to touch the crabs and I'm amazed that Lila didn't seem to mind. haha.
A couple of nights Tad took the boys out in the dark to hunt for crabs and they ended up finding a huge one! (in the pink bucket below)

We always let them go, but this one stayed the night with us (on the porch) before he was released.