My favorite thing to do at school is play on the swing set with my friends at recess.   I  love jumping off of them.

They are cool to play on, because I can jump off of them when I am high up in the air.  I run to the swing set each time.

The light blue soldier crab, also known as Mictyris longicarpus, live on sandy beaches between the Bay of Bengal and Australia. It is one of Australia’s most loved crabs. Adults are 25mm (1 inch) across. They feed on detritus in the sand, leaving rounded pallets of discarded sand behind them.

The males form into large ‘armies’ along the beaches at low tide, before the crabs dig under the sand to wait for the next low tide. This is how they got their name ‘soldier crabs’.

Australia is my most perfect place in the whole wide world because it’s always hot and sunny. Which means I can always play outside! When we went back to Australia about a week ago, we stayed with my Mum and Dad’s friends. We were so lucky because they had a pool at their house. We swam a lot! My favorite thing to do in the pool was to dive in and get toys from the bottom.

I also like Australia because they have nice sandy beaches. We went to stay with my Nanni, who lives at the beach. We went for a long walk and collected some shells. We also went the park. Because it was low tide when we went for a walk, we saw hundreds of Soldier Crabs. My little brother Dexter was scared of them.

We had so much fun in Australia. They also have great food and drinks!