One of the things I love about living on the coast is the access to all the seafood I could possibly eat, more or less for free. Spouse and his friends fish for trout and salmon, so our freezer is always stocked with whole and smoked pink fish; if we feel like clams, it’s not a long trip up the coast to a place where you can simply pluck them out of the sand – sometimes handfuls of them at a time.
In the summer, we often spend long days at the beach after my brother-in-law and Spouse drag crab traps out into the water; most of the day is waiting, in the sunshine. It’s very hard work. After a few hours, they hop into the boat, check the traps, and bring back sweet dungeness crabs, as many as we can eat and sometimes more.
The reward for our lazy day at the beach is a feast of steamed crabs, crusty bread and garlic butter. I have no complaints about this.
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- Throwing rocks with Grandpa.
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- Heading out to set the traps deep in the water.
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- Reading with Grandma
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- This is basically how crabbing goes 85% of the time.
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- Toddler with his cousins, Uncle Nathan
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- A nice place to pause for a chat with Grandma.
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- It’s not much work for me either.
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- Toddler is very serious about all of this.
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- Off to check the traps
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- Got some!
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- Excitement builds.
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- I will eat your whole family.
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- Boats are also pretty fun.
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- A red rock crab with some bread.
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- I ate most of these before I could get a picture. You get the idea, right?
It caught my eye too! But now I am hungry for seafood!
I got hungry for it again too – deep-frying shrimp for dinner!
“I got crabs” is pretty much the best tagline yet. I can’t help but think of the misguided ghetto-Google searches that will land here.
Oh, I hope. That would be SEO at its best.