Crabbing in the rain

Thursday, November 06, 2008

Sister #3 and her husband recently obtained their crabbing licenses, bought a crab pot and 8 billion feet of rope, and with their canoe on the top of their car, set out to drop their pot in Sequim Bay. That trip didn't go too well... wind gusts over 25 mph, heavy rain, and rope that wasn't *quite* long enough resulted in a near capsizing and loss of the pot. So they gathered everything up and came back to Port Angeles to drop their pot in the harbor.


The next day they went to retrieve the pot and I went along for the ride. Not in the canoe... it was raining so I sat in the warm car with an umbrella and hung out the car window snapping photos.

These are a few of my faves...



the foggy mist hovering over the town.. I just love this time of year




waves lapping the shore of the spit


container ship in the harbor, town behind


you can just make out the eyes/nose of the seal that popped up to see what was going on


padding out to retrieve the pot


















just three little crabs


that don't want to come out


verifying the size


sister #3 texting mom about the 2 crabs they kept


heading back out to drop the pot back in (next trip yielded 6 crabs!)