A Crab Feast

 Hullo!! We are back on the boat after having lunch on Thetis Island... will our crab traps yield anything? We hope so... cause the prawn traps were a waste of time!

It's getting quite choppy out there...

With a lot of wave spray!!

That's one of the prawn traps after being pulled up... nothing... nada... zippo... not a good spot.

Last time, Scott went out, they had great luck with prawns... not this time. Sigh.

But crabs... OMG... crabs!!!!

We have to measure them all to make sure they are big enough and then make sure we don't take any females... only the males...

That little guy is trying to get away!

Oh wow...

This one is a bit small...

But this one is a good size.

So into the bucket it goes!

These are Dungeness Crabs... there were some Rock Crabs too but they are small and not worth keeping.

So many crabs!

Oh wow... the bucket is filling up! We are limited to how many each person can have... There are 3 fishing licensed people on board so we can have quite a few.

Watch those claws!

Some are trying to get away...

Wow... what a feast!

And then we headed back... going past that famous actress's pier again...

And crossing the 49th parallel...

And now we... sigh... kill the crabs. This was not pretty. Scott basically hacked their undersides in half and then ripped each half off the shell. I could hear crabs screaming in my stuffie mind and...

Errr... Hello, Dory. This is Dory. She is a St. Bernard. Or a Bernese Mountain Dog. Or something. She is a slobber-fest and...

Ummm... do you want some crab? Cause they are over there... and...

Yes... well... note to self... do not let human put this stuffie down, even for a moment...

Cause Dory obviously thinks that this stuffie would taste way better than crab... eek!

The crab massacre is continuing...

This is goin to be a LOT of crab!

Like a lot...

And there are the empty shells.

And then we cooked them up and had a crab feast!!! Sooooooo yummy!!!!