{"id":3827,"date":"2017-04-26T11:53:47","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T15:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sellingdelawarehomes.com\/delaware-real-estate\/?p=3827"},"modified":"2017-11-20T10:23:05","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T15:23:05","slug":"why-we-live-here-ancient-spectacle-rehoboth-bay-delaware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sellingdelawarehomes.com\/delaware-real-estate\/why-we-live-here-ancient-spectacle-rehoboth-bay-delaware\/","title":{"rendered":"Why We Live Here . . . Ancient Spectacle ~ Rehoboth Bay, Delaware"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Each Spring, the bays in Delaware become the site of one of the most spectacular and ancient phenomena in the natural world: the spawning of horseshoe crabs and the flocking of ravenous shorebirds that depend on them.<\/p>\n

Explore many of the communities that reside Bay front like Bay Colony<\/a>, Broadkill Beach<\/a>, Cape Shores<\/a>, Ellis Point<\/a>, Lewes Beach<\/a>, Primehook Beach<\/a>, Slaughter Beach<\/a>, South Shore<\/a> and more<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Horseshoe crab eggs are\u00a0critical in sustaining birds\u00a0that migrate up to 10,000 miles\u00a0each year. The threatened\u00a0bird, the Red Knot, for example, flies from wintering grounds in South America to the Arctic each spring, stopping in Delaware along the way to fuel up on horseshoe crab eggs.<\/p>\n

Some interesting facts about horseshoe crabs . . .\u00a0Their unique blue blood contains an agent used to test drugs and prosthetic devices for infectious bacteria and to diagnose spinal meningitis.\u00a0 They also swim upside down at a thirty degree angle.\u00a0 The female can lay between 60,000 and 120,000 eggs in batches of a few thousand at a time. The eggs take about two weeks to hatch. Horseshoe crabs superficially resemble\u00a0crustaceans; actually, they are closely related to\u00a0arachnids.<\/p>\n

Some evidence suggests that\u00a0the crabs are over harvested in North America, which has led to a harvesting ban in New Jersey and restrictions in Delaware.\u00a0 When you travel to our bays in May or June, this is quite a miracle to witness!\u00a0 (Source: The Nature Conservancy)<\/i><\/p>\n

There\u2019s nothing better than a beach vacation\u2014except actually living at the Beach!\u00a0\u00a0<\/i><\/b>Contact Us<\/i><\/b><\/a>\u00a0and let us show you just how easy it is to make the beach your home!<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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Photo Credits: These photos were taken by our own Angela Yerton just before paddle boarding at the state park just south of Dewey Beach.<\/p>\n

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