Pelagic Crabs in OC

 I woke up Sunday morning reading in the news about a rare occurrence of pelagic crabs washing ashore in San Diego and was pleasantly surprised later that day to see them all over our favorite beach in Dana Point.

They wash ashore and get stranded and apparently they're showing up here because of warmer winter waters earlier this year. Poor things. Imagine if they were clean and we'd known when they were coming, someone could have set up a motu picnic for all of OC's beach goers.  

So this must be related to the El Nino that hasn't transpired. The rare appearance of velella velella late last year must be related to this warmer water as well as the great white sharks in Seal Beach. We shall see what the rest of this interesting year brings.