Gilded Bay i don't mean a big reduction in the price of beer

Mintaka let out a laugh at his description, animated and genuine. "Fish are pretty dumb," she agreed, figuring that he was probably insulting their actual intelligence rather than just using the phrase arbitrarily. The jelly creatures sounded pretty weird. "We'll have to help them back into the water if we find any." They probably needed water, right? If they were anything like fish. 

She crouched down to nudge one of the sideways-walking creatures that crawled along the sand. "This thing has a hat on, like a snail," she remarked, flipping the poor hermit crab on its back. "Do you know what it's called?"