KLEWNUGGIT
AT ANCHOR
Wednesday,
May 27th
This
morning I decided to make use of three overripe bananas and make banana bread
while I waited to go pull pots. Everyone was having a nice lazy morning
enjoying a non-travel day, again the sun is out and it’s beautiful. We are the
only boats in the bay which is nice. Around 9:30 we went to check our pots and
scored! A total of 8 keepers, three of which were 8” or more, the crab measurer
was too small is all we know! I used chicken leg/thigh piece and prawn shells
from the spot prawns I had cooked yesterday. Connie used cat food, a piece of
old salmon, and prawn shells. Stinky all the way around. Forgot bait to reset
so after running our haul back to the boats and quickly processing our catch,
we zipped back out and reset the pots. Today there is no wind so the water was
like glass all the way. There’s a lake here that is just about 10’ or less above
the high tide line so it is always pouring out into the bay, creating a nice
waterfall, it’s very cool. John spent the day ticking items off his to-do list which
makes him very happy, there’s always a lot of things to fix and tweak on a
boat. I spent the rest of the day prepping for the dinner we are hosting
tonight which was going to be Steelhead from the freezer, but now is going to
be a crab feast! Caesar salad, sourdough bread (the take and bake kind from
Costco that lasts 3 months in a sealed bag, we don’t want to know the
ingredients), Spot Prawns and cocktail sauce, and Bon Apetit Brown Butter Peach
Cobbler for dessert (if you haven’t made before, google, print and make it
today!). I use thawed frozen peaches of course since it’s not peach season, and
highly doubtful one could find peaches in remote marinas even if it was! I also
add some almond extract to the peach mixture in case you do make it. No keepers
in the second pull except for Bill and Lorraine who got 1 keeper, but it was a
short time period and was an outgoing tide. Greg was kind enough to cook up our
crab for us while I prepared the dining table for our feast! A rousing game of
5 Crowns followed dinner and we all retired around 10PM, full.
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| Dinner in the Wheelhouse |
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| The feast awaits |
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| Looking down to the head of our bay where Far Niente is anchored |
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| Huntress at Anchor, with UnforgetAbell behind, you can just see the tip of Greg and Connie's orange kayak sticking out! |
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| Beautiful morning in Klewnuggit |
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| My crab victims awaiting their fate in my galley sink, which is where I crack them |
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| Bill and Lorraine |
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| The lake in Klewnuggit, note you can see the lake line just a bit above the high tide line |
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| Close up of the waterfall at mid tide |
Greg and I picking the pots in the afternoon, I got a pile of females in mine and all the bait demolished, so am hoping they make lots of boy babies
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