A Star Advertiser article in this morning's newspaper showed a picture of a Samoan crab that I have seen and touched with a pair of tongs, of course, in the past. An ancestor of this huge crab tried to find a home under our mango tree of our Summer Street home in Kuliouou after East Oahu experienced a tidal wave. I"m still researching as to what date and year that was. I think in the 1950's. Confirmed now by my brothers, 1952. I was just 7 years old! I can remember my 2 brothers and me crouched over a laundry galvanize bucket staring at this huge monster of a crab, very unlike the ones we caught from the Kuliouou bridge and not even close to the ones we caught out on the sand flats when we walked out to our "sand island" beyond Kuliouou park. Unfortunately, in those "hunna butta" days we had NO cell phones to snap up quick pictures. All we had was our memories. I do remember that we were thinking that the pincers would be full of juicy meat. However, this creature was starving and dehydrated after walking across Kalanianaole Highway all the way from what is now Hawaii Kai. It was washed out of its home from Kuapa pond which no longer exists today.
Click here to read today's article on the Samoan crab.
Click here to read today's article on the Samoan crab.
