Camp Sante

No, that's not a typo.  Our boat is still at Cap Sante, but this place has been taken over!  I could have also titled this post "Crab Sante".  

But back to CaMp Sante 

Okay, so it's probably only about 30 RV's and another ten or so tents.  But considering we normally see about four campers here, this feels like an invasion!  What the heck?

It's the Crabanese!

Or as our neighbor calls them "the crab people".  Crab season opened on Monday, the 15th.  But this is the first weekend of the season.  And the regulations only allow crabbing on Thursday through Monday.  Hence the invasion.  We started seeing the big trailer lot (as in boat trailers normally) fill up and wondered whether they were here for the crabbing or "Shipwreck Days", which is city-wide yard sale.  But between conversations with friends on the docks and a walk through the encampment we figure they're here for the crab.  Within the camping area there are several groups that seem to be here together.  They have awnings and tables and crab cookers set up.  I have a feeling we'll be seeing some production lines for crab processing this weekend.  And they'll probably put out enough steam to create a fog bank.  But it looks like everybody is having fun and behaving themselves so that's great!  

Meanwhile there's Shipwreck Days, which as far as I can tell is actually one day.  The main street in historic downtown is closed off as well as a block on each side of the cross streets for about 10 blocks and it becomes a huge yard sale. We'll check it out and give you a report.  

We'll also let you know how this invasion of the Crabanese pans out.  Or would that be "pots out"?  

In the meantime, we're enjoying the normal stuff that happens here in Anacortes.  On Friday nights in the summer there are the free concerts at Mariners Memorial Park.  We can hear them from the boat while we sip a glass of wine and eat Milano cookies.  Saturday there is the Farmers Market just on the other side of the Crabanese encampment.  

The other day we went to the library to check out the wifi.  I had a webinar I wanted to watch for continuing professional education and there isn't any wifi in the marina right now while they are upgrading the system.  And sure enough the library has a great signal.  And it's a really nice library that was full of people!  It took me a bit to find an open desk where I could sit.  It was story hour and that room was packed with kids they had given buckets to and they were all drumming up quite a racket!  Unfortunately as I was about to leave I saw that they opened about an hour after my webinar would be finished.  No worries, Safeway's Starbucks came to the rescue.  With the bonus of a Mexi-mocha and getting to wave at several familiar faces as they finished their shopping.  

So stay tuned friends for the report on Shipwreck Day(s) and the continuing saga of the Crabanese invasion.