Alaska - shrimp and crabbing

We did a little crabbing and shrimpfffing when we were there. We kinda got overtaken by the commercial fisherman, as they had their crab and shrimp pots lined along the entire shorline of the Bay and we could only squeeze in next to them. As you can see from the photos, we used yesterday's fish heads for crab bait. Luckily, that was the day I decided to retire from Soux Hand and so I didn't have to touch those disgusting things. We weren't super successful, but we did get enough food to provide us with a splendid seafood feast that night for din-din. Crabbing and shrimping is a LOT OF WORK! I caught glimpses of it in between naps and I nearly broke a sweat.

The cleaning of the shrimp involved standing around in a circle ripping the heads off of the shrimp and throwing them back into the Bay. Yummy!

There's something that is referred to as "the butter" that certain crazy people like to drink right out of the crab shell once it's ripped off the body. I think it must involve guts. Guts to drink it, and guts you're drinkin'. Thank you, Ma'am, may I have another???

Truly fresh crab and shrimpfff is a culinary dream! This food was seriously awesome and my bff, Carolyn, was kind enough to crack it all out of the shell for me and deliver it ready to eat on my plate. Of course, she did squirt crab juice all over my face at one point, but I figure that makes up for the time I spit rootbeer backwash threw a straw right into her face at our local pizza joint back when we were in 9th grade. and I didn't do it to be helpful. So all's good.

I screwed up and did half these photos on "small" setting so just double-click to enlarge to actual size.