There is a bait shop right next door to us that has a side business of boiling the Dungeness crabs that the fishermen catch - 50 cents/crab - the fisherman we talked with caught 38. His friends from Michigan were here visiting and they were planning a feast! Most of them are about the size of a sandwich plate - they throw them in the pot of boiling water alive and boil them for about 15 minutes - then rinse them in cold water to cool them down quickly - apparently this helps the meat come out easier. They sell for about $12.50 each in the restaurants around here. The camp host told us about a place to buy fresh fish that posts the name of the boat that brought them in that morning!
Remember the hot tub story from when we were near Mammoth Lakes? A couple we met that night told us about two places to eat while we are here. We went to one for lunch today - Noodle Café - and had the best Asian food we've had in a long, long time! The other one is for chowder some other time this week.
After lunch we shopped around the waterfront area and stopped to watch when a fishing charter docked. Two women were set up ready to clean their catches. OMG, you should see them fillet a fish - zip, zip with the fillet knife and it's done!
Then we drove out to Yaquina Bay Lighthouse. What a gorgeous landscape! Thousands of birds nest on the rocks just off the coast and we saw a whale breach several times not far from the beach.
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