Crab day! (very foggy)

Yesterday, my whole family went out to eat for Aunt Pennies birthday! We went to a really fancy reastruant, and it was an italian place. I got the bacon and bleu cheese pizza. It was really good, but i could not eat the whole thing, so i had to take it home.

Bacon and Bleu cheese pizza.

Today, i got up at 5 again, and there were no more bagels, so i had 2 pieces of toast, one with jam, and one with peanut-butter. I packed my bag of snacks with pretzels, a water bottle, and a bag of chips. Today we thought we were going to be done after 1 P.M. but we actually finished right after Noon! We were collecting the good sized crabs that we caught in our lobster traps today, because later, my dad wanted to boil the crabs and eat them. 

When we went out on the boat this morning, there was a lot of bait bags filled up already, and Uncle Art had just bought a whole other package of yellow bags. The bags come in long rectangles, so you need to stretch them out before you can fill them with bait. I got a lot of bags filled on the way out to the first trap. I finished filling all of the yellow bags with the rest of the bait we had in the bait box, by about 12:30 P.M. So... from then and on, i didn't need to fill bait bags because they were all full and all of the bait was gone.

We saw a mama seal, and a baby seal, following our boat. At first, we thought that it was just the baby seal alone, but then we saw the big mama seal, and Uncle Art said it was rare that we got to see them together. The baby seal was really tame, and it came right up to the boat. It was so cute, i was able to get a picture of it!

Baby seal!

Baby seal again!

It was right next to the boat, so i was able to get this picture by leaning out over the boat and taking this picture. It was awesome! By the end of the day, we had collected about 9 good sized crabs, for my dad to cook. Crabs are really strong, and their pinch, can hurt as much as a large sized lobster! Crabs are only about the size of your foot, but not as long. We got some good sized crabs, and heavy ones, good for cooking!

-August 20, Thursday (Day off tomarrow!)