Last week we went crabbing off of Camano Island in the Puget Sound. We were there for 4 days/3 nights and we had a ton of fun. We were able to crab with friends from Royal, friends from Camano Island that we knew from Connell, more friends from Royal, and Justin took some of the mutual kids from the Othello Stake. The trip was offered to the mutual kids in the Stake who had either earned their Eagle Scout award or their Personal Progress award in the last year. It's always fun to take people who have never been before. We stayed at two different State Parks over on the island in some little cabins. It was a super fun trip. Justin said he thought it might be his altime favorite. We caught our limits every day and there was just a ton of crab. We figured that we kept about 300 crab between both boats (our friend had his boat there too)after the four days were up. Our best pot pulled 27 crab with 7 keepers and we actually managed to get a picture of it. Our friend pulled a pot with 30 crab. 
We had a great time even though there were a few little hitches along the way. Somewhere along the highway, our boat window was shattered. I couldn't believe the weather either! We were hoping to get a break from the heat and then went right into record breaking temps in the Seattle area. On Wednesday, Seattle recorded a temp of 103. In the history or recording temps, Seattle has never been so hot. When you added in the humidity, it was a cooker! Thursday cooled off a little bit and the Friday and Saturday were just plain nice. We went home to 100+ temps on Saturday night.
We're always surprised when we pull something other than a crab in one of our pots. This year we pulled several sun stars (a variety of star fish), a small flounder, and a jellyfish. We kept finding jellyfish tentacles that were all stringy on our ropes as we would pull them. We discovered quickly that these were the stinging kind. If the stringy tentacles touched our skin, it burned for hours.
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