That’s really the name of a town. Late this afternoon Kathe, Jim, and Warren went for a drive to the small town of Tokeland, eleven miles south at the end of the peninsula. There are only 99 residents that live there and probably about a million oysters.
They drove to the end of the pier and watched boats out in the bay harvesting oysters. Then they noticed several people pulling crab pots off the pier. One of the men let them watch as he checked his trap. It was full of crabs. Unfortunately, so many of them were either female or too small to keep that he only ended up with one crab large enough to keep. He must have tossed a dozen back into the bay. Then he took a salmon fish head and baited the trap again and lowered back into the water.
Kathe and Warren decided to see if there were any crabs for sale. They were told to see the captain of the boat “Jim Bob” to see if he would sell them a couple of crabs. They were able to buy 2 live crabs for $10.00 and he threw in a third for free! What a deal. At the fish market in Westport they wanted $19.00 per crab. When they got back to camp Kathe helped Warren cook them and she plans to make crab cakes with the meat tomorrow.
In honor of the International Mermaid Museum tonight’s cocktail was “Mermaids Water”.
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