STel GK744

[gardenknowin]

Stuck on last one -28A Common active crab found on rock shores (5,9) I have ?A?L?L?G???O??; and Google isn't much help. Thanks

[shaneystar2]

Sally Lightfoot

[sarumite]

Well done shaney .. I have also been stuck on that one!

[gardenknowin]

Many thanks Shaneystar - you are (a star!)

[sincnoel]

shaney, could one ask where you came by this knowledge? i have 22 dictionaries and i've just been through them all and sally lightfoot isn't mentioned in a single one.

[shaneystar2]

From an ancient book about marine biology left to me by an uncle ....who left me loads of old books dating back to the year dot by the look of some of them but they have come in very useful at times.
I looked up rock crabs and it gave me grapsus grapsus ...a red rock crab found in the Galapagos Islands amongst other places.....Sally Lightfoot and Google confirmed it . And Wiki gives it too
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grapsus_grapsus

My motto ...never get rid of books no matter how obscure the subject matter !

[sincnoel]

shaney, your motto is mine, too. i'm up to my ears in them. my partner keeps on about having a cull but, somehow, i take the view (like you) that one never knows when they'll come in useful. thanks for your reply. that really was an exotic question.

[sincnoel]

by the way, does your old volume give the origin of sally lightfoot? my curiosity is thoroughly whetted.

[shaneystar2]

No ...nothing on the origin of the name in the book....lost in the mists of time no doubt . After a swift Google around .....
there is a Scots Jig called the Sally Lightfoot ...so perhaps they were so named by sailors on the voyages to the Galapagos because of the way they dance about .....they are mentioned as such by Darwin ....so you never know .

[sincnoel]

sounds like a pretty darn good guess to me!