Got crabs for sure!
17 May 2013 | Owen Bay, Desolation Sound
Maggie
Back up the Yucalta Rapids we went timing ourselves so that we could get through the Hole in the Wall rapids at slack - we're getting good at this!
Blake recommended Owen Bay for crabbing and we were ready for our first crab omlette. While I buried myself in BLUE giving her a good clean, Nev had a ball outside in the rain dinghying about the bay setting crab traps. When we lifted tehm the following mornig they were full! About 15 crabs and 3 starfish which fascinated Nev as he had always believed where there are starfish there are no crab. Eleven of the 15 were males, 7" across the widest part of their body, and therefore keepable!
We boiled them, iced them down, cracked them and filled our dishes with more crab meat than I've ever seen... 3 lbs of edible meat to be exact. The omlette at 1pm was scrummy delicious - well worth all the effort :)
In the afternoon we hiked to see the rapids at full flow - no rapids to be found on the trail we'd chosen, but many large bear poops that had me picking up a stick very quickly as my eyes scanned the bushes around us and my ears were on high alert! We giggled in bed that night as I fessed up to Nev where my imagination had taken me on that walk: the bear had got him, I had manged to get back to BLUE to call for help... and then all I could think about was how I would get through those rapids alone!! I love my Kapitan and I need him xx For once I was happier to have my feet on the water instead of land!