OOPS…

I wish I could have taken this 20 minutes sooner when the boat was 45 degrees sideways. He is not the first sailboat to not read the tide charts correctly and get beached. It was a BIG sailboat. If you zoom in you’ll see him at the left/back inspecting the boat. He did get released about 5 hours later and moved to deeper water.

The mountains and buildings in the far background are actually Vancouver Island, across the straight.

CRABS, CRABS, and more CRABS!

It’s so fun being able to go crabbing in my back yard!

1st–Row out set the pots/ wait at least 4 hrs and go back and get them. Sort out the females and throw them back into the water.

Shot from my living room window

2nd–Get the cooker going, have ice bucket ready. Make sure you have tongs and a big glove. These guys PINCH–HARD!

Cook exactly 11 minutes– then plunge in ice water to stop the cooking

Third–you have to clean them… Now you have to pull their “lids” off and take out the guts (on the right). Now you have the crab you can crack and eat (on the left)