I spotted something moving in the water a few meters from shore -- and when I focused on it, discovered that it was a Cecropia Moth, caught in the water in the middle of the algae but still flapping. Our guide Don Riepe, bless his heart, waded out into the slippery (not to mention slimy) shallows and rescued the poor thing!

Don't know if he'll ever recover, but when we left him he was doing a lot better than we had expected. As he started drying out he started shivering his wings to warm up and, lo and behold, the crumpled right wing seemed to stiffen as he pumped it back up. The forewing/hindwing overlap is disrupted on that side; don't know if he'll be able to fix that or not. But he seemed fairly vigorous, with a good bit of life left in him, so who knows.

Still begs the question of what he was doing in the water in the first place!

This adult female horseshoe crab was badly tangled in a line that was twined all around her claws and body. We managed to cut it free, and Don (the group leader) brought her back down to the water's edge and sent her on her way.

Originally identified as an immature female eastern forktail. Another possibility considered was the lilypad forktail. But on second thought, I'm pretty sure this is an orange bluet. Abdomen pattern and slender profile support it.