Rockport, Texas: World's Largest Blue Crab
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WalksfarTX
N 28° 01.632 W 097° 02.774
14R E 692071 N 3101754
The original crab was made of paper mache and chicken wire and sat on the roof of a local crab cake restaurant. Battered by hurricanes, it was removed and buried in 1976. But the town never forgot it, and in 2012 it unveiled a new, better crab.
Waymark Code: WMPZV7
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 11/19/2015
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The Big Blue Crab is back. I built it of aluminum and fiberglass and tinted the fiberglass resin for the colors, which should slow the fading. It took nine months to complete, and six days just to mount Big Blue on his new pylons. The new crab is much bigger than the 1950s crab, 27 feet from the back fin to the front claw and 25 feet of legs from end to end. Why is he a male crab with female crab claws? Because back in 1969, the city got a guy from the north to repaint Ol' Blue. He either didn't know that there was a difference between a male and female crab, or he gave it no thought at all and just copied the first crab he saw, which turned out to be a female crab. That's why I've kept with the tradition of keeping it a male underbelly with the female red claws, just like in the 1960s. [David Allgood, 08/29/2012]
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