in Vermont?
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Originally Posted by Shell
...we sat outside and watched the boats go by...some of which docked right there, had dinner, then got back on their boats and left....
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see, that's what we did. After calling the harbour master in St. Michaels and a couple boat dock/slip facilities, we found that docking fee would be over $100 per day; so we could have anchored in the harbour and paid a few bucks to a water taxi to come pick us up and bring us back but they close shop at 10pm and who wants to go home so early!?! So we called the crab joint right on the harbour and they said we could dock right there while having dinner. Since we always have to be the last to leave any party, everyone was gone including half the staff by the time we were ready to go. So we asked if we can just stay the night at their dock and they said yes, probably since I'm such a handsome large tipper; so we had fresh crabs and a free dock.
unc, I have to agree crab cakes are the way to go. But every couple years I have to pick the crab apart to help me remember why I would rather just pay somebody else to get the meat out for me. On the plus side these were damn good fresh large crabs.
We also had a bunch of steamers which are those strange clams that look like baby geoducks; steamers are like 1-1/2 inches across and this is an adolescent geoduck:
^ that neck/sucker mouth can extend upwards of 6 feet from where the geoduck buries itself on beaches and just the sucker sticks out to get food.
I bet Tully is a geoduck expert since he's from the Pacific NW. My dearest daughter who lives in Olympia WA seeds the beaches of Puget Sound with baby geoducks as an environmental improvement project...if you can imagine having a large number of geoducks being an "environmental improvement"