will work for food

literally... the art department had our first day off in a week and we decided to spend our day in the hunting and gathering mode...

for the slightly squimish or the crab protectors of the universe...stop reading at this point...

....hunting and gathering for our afternoon snack. after taking a walk on the oceanside of the island, we made our way back to the bayside (a whole 3 blocks) and out to the CRAB DOCK.... where we proceeded to tie perfectly good chicken legs to the end of a strong rope and caste them into the bay, in hopes that there would be some hungry crabbies waiting at the bottom to be caught and hoping we had not wasted that perfectly good chicken that we could have cooked up instead of using as bait!

the beginning of the crabbing didn't go so well...but after the first hour or so, we starting catching some crabs that were actually big enough to keep. by the end of our crabbing excursion we had about 10 or so crabs that were doomed to the boiling pot as soon as we got home.

i have to admit that the whole "cooking" process was a little freaky for me, and i mostly watched as a bystander. i did throw one in the pot, but that was about all that i could do.....and of course we had the one that almost got away....jumping from between the tongs to the kitchen floor and trying to make its way to somewhere far away from us....but his escape was thwarted by the quick grab of chef brandoni and the crab faced the same end as his fellow friends.

in the end, we all sat down at the tiki bar in the backyard and feasted on the freshest seafood that you could get. there is some satisfaction in catching what you eat, but i think that i will draw the line with crabbing....have no fear all those chickens, turkeys and fishes that i come across, i promise that i am not stocking you for my next meal.