Dungeness Crab Festival

Every October, Port Angeles Washington hosts a festival to celebrate the height of crabbing season – specifically, the local Dungeness Crab, which is a very popular culinary delicacy in the Northwest. Jack is a huge fan of eating crab, and for his Father-Son-Solo outing, we went to the Crab Festival. The highlight of the festival was getting a chance to catch (and then eat!) some crabs! They have two ‘pools’ (about 4-feet deep, and maybe six feet-by-three feet around), each one filled with about 100 live crabs. For $5, you get a pole with some loops on the end (like weed-wacker plastic twine), and you can catch as many crabs as you can in ten minutes, and then buy them (unless you catch one of the 5 in each tank that are marked as free). Jack went twice, and caught two crabs each time – one of which was the free one each time! Dad and Jack had two crabs (one each) for lunch, and then we brought the other two home for the whole family to enjoy as dinner. Here is some video of Jack catching his first crab!