Crabbin in Oregon...

Bandon Oregon

Yummy!

Those little Pincher's...

Going scuba diving...

Cooking up our crab on the beach...

I want some crab!

On our summer vacation we stopped at a little place in Oregon called Bandon. They have this beautiful place along the sea, where you can rent crabbing rings they supply the bait, which is a pretty good size raw chicken thigh or breast. I guess that's what the crab prefer eating. There was a local fisherman cleaning up his catch for the day and he was good enough to offer us a huge fish head. Well we thought we had it all going on with that for bait, come to find out boy were we wrong. We didn't fair well with that idea because the crabs didn't even nibble on it. So we ended up giving it to the sea gulls, and the pelicans.  There was a small crowd just throwing their rings out over the pier and the docks. All you do is wait for 5 minutes and you've got yourself some crab for dinner. Afterwards you either clean your own crab, at the fish cleaning area, or you can take it back to the place where you rent the crabbing ring from.   Well we decided doing it ourselves, since the majority of the locals made it seem so easy watching them. And really there was nothing to it, seeing them alive and killing them was kind of sad but what do you

do? You gotta eat right?  I thought what was kind of interesting there was a man putting on his scuba diving gear on and decided to go crabbing his own way, didn't do very well came back up empty handed. I guess the waters were too dark to really see anything. Even though he put on a good show for the tourist.  Back at the crab rental place they offered on cooking our crabs for us, but whats the fun in that? We decided to take our catch of the day to the beach, we gathered up some wood and made us a huge fire. It was the perfect ending to our wonderful day. We brought along some wine and gathered around the fire and cooked up our crab in a big pot we brought from home, we ended up ditching the pot afterwards. We then left and tracked back to our nice motel bye the ocean and we had ourselves a crab feast! I cannot forget the taste of our crab, the meat was so tender and sweet. And we didn't even have to use any shell crackers to open the leg's the shell kind of just gave way so easily. I couldn't believe all the crab we had to eat we sure had our fill...