Crab Season Continues

Yet another beautiful day on the water! We launched on Saturday, at about 3:00 PM to pull our pots just as the tide peaked. As you can see, the wind was not a factor, and the water like glass. The temperature was just right, a bit cooler than at the house. Conditions were right for just floating around on the water.

Visibility was pretty good too! This is Mount Baker, 10,770 feet in height, is located miles away, northwest of Seattle. The strip of land is Dungeness Spit, the longest sand spit in North America, more than 5 miles long, and the tiny white tower on the spit to the left of Baker is the Dungeness Lighthouse.

As this picture illustrates, Maryvonne is all geared up and ready for catching and hauling in pots. As you know from watching the Deadliest Catch, grabbing the pots as the boat goes by is a job that is tense, and demands catlike reflexes. You can see her confident, yet intense, piercing gaze here as she scans the horizon for out pots. She never misses.


Then we got the crabs home, and into the pot they go! This one was very helpful, it grabbed the tongs, and for a moment I thought it was going to use them as extensions to its claw to grab another crab and toss it in the pot! But that's not the way we roll up in here. We butcher them, separating the crab into halves, clean them, then into the pot they go for 10 minutes. After that, they are ready to cool and eat!

Note the sheets on the line in the background, further evidence of our reduced carbon footprint. Not only does the reduction in electric usage count, but the evaporative impact of the sheets reduces the temperature of the planet, I bet. But all our efforts have not offset the carbon footprint of Mt Baker. We are recommending it be capped, or at least traded.