The highlight of the trip is the crabbing. Norris takes Nik on Friday, and both Nik and Kent Saturday. We have a crab feast Friday night on the dining room table covered with newspapers. We crack crabs with nutcrackers and pry them open with our hands. We dip them in melted butter and eat them with the delicious whole wheat pasta with veggies and parmesan made by Alex. We top it off with java chip ice cream. Not bad. It's amazing to watch Norris wash the crabs and boil them in a huge kettle fired by a portable propane stove. It's hard work.
Then on Saturday, I get to go out with him and Nik to set traps in a bay. The bait is raw chicken legs. Apparently, crabs are bottom feeders and love meat. Weird.
We then circle back to where we started and pull up our catch. Norris shows me how to tell the females because they must be thrown back, and the males need to be of a certain size. Friday they catch 11 crabs. Saturday's catch is about eight. It's crabcakes in their household for Sunday. Unfortunately, Alex doesn't like them. Too bad.
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