Two Adventures in My Life

Saturday, January 28, 2012

A Seal sitting out on a Bouy  taking a rest                                       Me sailing the boat in the Puget Sound  2001                                           Before the Sunburn..........                                       Still sailing the boat........wasn't to hard.                                  Johnny my Beagle........wearing his life jacket and enjoying the sail. A New adventure in my Life.......... When I went to Washington to live I visited and did some things that I thought I would never do in my life. I am deeply afraid of water and avoid getting into it anytime I can.  I went out onto the Ocean 2 times while I was there.  The first time my husband (Steve Petersen) took me crab fishing.  We went out into the ocean and threw out crab pots.  We put salmon in the pots to attract the crab.  After leaving the pots in the water overnight we went out the next morning to retrieve them.   I was so surprised to see them.  They were clear full of crab.  We had four pots out and they each held about 30 crabs.  We pulled them in and started weeding out the one's we couldn't keep.  They had to measure so wide and we could keep no females. We ended up keeping about 40 Crab. We gave a few of them away to campers that were there in the campground.  We then boiled up 4 of them for dinner.  I felt kind of bad putting live crab into boiling water.  They only took 10 minutes to boil up.  The only thing I hated about crabs was cleaning them out.  It was gross.  I never did go in for cleaning any type of fish.  When we sat down to our meal it was so good.  Fresh crab is out of this world, especially when it is dipped in butter. The next thing I learned was how to sail.  I never thought I would do that.  Steve took me sailing in the Puget Sound a couple of times.  I really enjoyed it.  My big sailing trip took me out of the Puget Sound and into the Pacific Ocean.  I was really scared but it turned out to be a wonderful experience.  I saw dolphins up close , we saw one whale.  The Ocean was so beautiful.  We took Johnny on this trip with us.  He did really good and had his own life jacket.  We sailed to a group of islands out in the Ocean.  They had several places you could stay.  They were campgrounds.  We moored the boat and went into the campground and grilled a couple of steaks.  They were so good.  Johnny really enjoyed being in the out of doors.  He always did enjoy that.  We spent the night sleeping on the boat.  In the middle of the night I heard something going through are things out in deck of our boat.  I wondered why Johnny didn't let us know something was out there.  I got up to check on things and was greeted by a huge Racoon.   He wasn't afraid of me at all.  He screamed at me and I was very afraid of him.  Steve had me close everything up so he couldn't come in with us. Johnny slept through the whole thing and I didn't sleep for the whole night.  Anyway, I did enjoy being out on the Ocean.