[johnfowles]

Sally Lightfoot
Last week I came across a reference to one Sally Lightfoot
who whilst being unlikely to be another offspring has I felt an interesting story behind her
We had our television tuned to a local PBS station, and although I was busy in another room I could hear the program that was running.
It was an episode of a travel series about South America by Richard Bangs describing the natural wonders of the volcanic Galapagos Islands
see:-
http://http://www.richardbangs.com/media-projects/tv-film
in particular how many years the native turtles live and how Charles Darwin studied the variety of, for example, different species of finches which later led to his famed Theory of Evolution, but what really made my ears prick up.entirely understandably, was a reference to Sally Lightfoot crabs, including a delightful story of how they got that name.
(I had several times seen "Sally Lightfoot" crop up in the google search results for Lightfoot items so it was good to find out why)
so here Boys and Girls is today's Natural History lesson
Firstly a splendid sample image of one of these colourful creatures



dang no reasonably sized image will display here so look at the pretty videos below instead.
Later see the attachment
and that name??
According to:-
http://http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Who_was_Sally_Lightfoot_for_whom_a_crab_and_a_sail boat_class_were_namedAnswer
According to antique seamen's lore, Sally Lightfoot is a night club dancer in the Caribbean. Although wearing hardly anything to cover her divine body, her dress is bright and colourful, red, orange and yellow. By profession, her movements are light and swift. A quick step sideways to avoid the odd hand snatching is her specialty. After months at sea and rounding Cape Horn, sailors anchor at the Galapagos Archipelago to take in fresh water. Brightly coloured crabs, red, orange and yellow, abound at the beach. High on their legs they move swiftly sideways. There is no doubt in any sailors mind; this is Sally Lightfoot,

A number of YouTube videos have been uploaded and here are three that I hope you will enjoy