Kermit was not truly a hermit crab, but he was indeed a hermit. This bad-tempered, shellfish old Scrooge of a crab lived all to himself in a cave under the rocks off Montery Bay. One day his greedy ways led him into trouble, near catastrophe. If it hadn't been for a small boy, that would have been the end of old Kermit. So the old crab owes his life to the boy.