Oh Crab!

Yes, today was the opening of crabbing season here.  We really didn't know what to expect.  We've experienced opening day of trout season at Howard Prairie.  That entailed a whole bunch of fishermen going out at daybreak (or before) in sub-freezing temperatures.  We watched this from a warm boat with hot coffee in hand.

Then there's the opening day of deer season in Utah.  Dave grew up with it.  He was used to it.  The schools closed.  It was like a state holiday. Me, well I first experienced it as a girl from the San Francisco bay area who had never handled a gun. It was on the same level with the major holidays in the retail stores.  Kinda freaked me out the first time.  I drove back to California until it was over.

The opening day of crab season was very civilized.  But there were certainly more boats headed out this morning, all sporting a pile of crab traps.  Who wouldn't????  I love Dungeness crab!  I'll take it over lobster any day.  We probably won't go down that road this season.  But its in the future for sure.

Instead we were working on our mainsail cover.  I would post pictures, but we have issues....

The marina is changing the wifi system - "updating".  Yes, in the middle of the busy season.  They have posted notice - in very obscure positions - that there will be no wifi until AUGUST 1ST!  Fortunately we have a cellular hotspot, but it doesn't "pack the same whallup" as the wifi from the marina.  It will be a long two weeks.....

So there will be fewer pictures for a couple of weeks.  I'll try to be more descriptive with my writing...but I just hope you'll all hang in there.  A few of the dock neighbors have advised us to visit the library for their wifi.  Stay tuned.