Blue Swimmer

If you're feeling restless
Or a trifle blue
Head off to the coast
Where the sea and crabs are blue

Be where the crabs
In seagrass fill
Your vision
Wall to wall

But beware a crab
Can nip you
If you dare
To make a grab

All of us can remember a time when the sea teemed with bounty. A Swan River in the 1980s full of crabs and prawns. Rock-pools at Lennox Head full of octopus. Crayfish wall to wall along the ledges north of Carnarvon. And then all at once without anyone noticing they are gone, or almost so. But it doesn't have to be like this and Spencer Gulf is a great example of the possible. It's truly uplifting to snorkel across the seagrass beds off Point Reilly and see Blue Swimmer Crabs by the dozen. Blue crabs and blue sea are a recipe to beat the blues.