THOMAS P. PESCHAK

Approaching Silhuette Island by sea one cannot help to find similarities to the fictional setting of the film Jurrasic Park. A rainforest clad mountain that plunges near vertically into the sea, its peak almost permantently obscured by billowing clouds.  Silhuette becam my home for a two week period, during which I photographed the astonishing cast of terrestrial crabs that inhabit the islands forests and beaches. No less than 10 species of crabs co-exist here, from the large and fearsome looking Cardisoma carnifex with a claw span of up to 30 cm to the Coenibita hermit crabs that carry their sea shells home with them wherever they go.