Pupukea tide pool contains feeble shrimp full of charm

By Susan Scott

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Jul 30, 2012

~~<p>When my 12-year-old friend Naia said she wanted to show me some shrimp she found, I didn't know I had to suffer to see them. But the cut on my toe, the scrape on my knee and the crick in my back turned out to be a small price to pay. When we arrived, Naia's shrimp not only crawled from beneath their rock homes to greet us, they also walked onto our fingers and posed for pictures.</p>
<p>The little charmers are called feeble shrimp after their species name "debilis," meaning "weak" (full scientific name: Palaemon debilis). Their Hawaiian name is opae huna.</p>
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When my 12-year-old friend Naia said she wanted to show me some shrimp she found, I didn't know I had to suffer to see them. But the cut on my toe, the scrape on my knee and the crick in my back turned out to be a small price to pay. When we arrived, Naia's shrimp not only crawled from beneath their rock homes to greet us, they also walked onto our fingers and posed for pictures.

The little charmers are called feeble shrimp after their species name "debilis," meaning "weak" (full scientific name: Palaemon debilis). Their Hawaiian name is opae huna. Login for more...