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  • heymoose
    heymoose Posts: 682
    edited August 2013

    Such beautiful birds.  Thanks for sharing.

  • eph3_12
    eph3_12 Posts: 2,704
    edited August 2013

    I'm headed to the rocky Southern Oregon coast tomorrow!  SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO excited!

  • gardengumby
    gardengumby Posts: 4,858
    edited August 2013

    how fun.  I love the Oregon coast.  When I was a kid we used to go down there all the time.

  • eph3_12
    eph3_12 Posts: 2,704
    edited August 2013

    The valley where I live has been saturated with smoke from about 5-8 wildfires that have been burning since July 27th or so.  Last weekend the winds were in our favor & blew most of it out, but since Monday, it's steadily been coming back in!  It's so bad that DEQ is telling everyone to stay in unless they must be out.  I made the reservation before the smoke started & now I think I am soooooo smart!  Can't wait.

  • chabba
    chabba Posts: 3,600
    edited August 2013

    I fell in love with the Oregon coast the summer I turned 6.  We had driven from North Dakota to visit an Uncle who lived there.  I will admit that my most vivid memory is going to the docks, getting fresh crab and going back to the Uncle's to eat it.  And thus began my lifelong love of the Dungeness!

  • marlegal
    marlegal Posts: 1,492
    edited August 2013

    Eph, have a wonnnderful time :)

  • eph3_12
    eph3_12 Posts: 2,704
    edited August 2013

    Yum Dungeness!

  • chabba
    chabba Posts: 3,600
    edited August 2013

    I think the finest meal I've ever had was a dungeness that went directly from trap to pot to plate in less than half an hour and served with drawn butter with a few drops of lemon juice.   Heaven! An orgy for the tastebuds!

  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Posts: 7,605
    edited August 2013

    LOVE crab here!!

    Herons look so bulky in the treetops!!! VERY top-heavy....

  • heymoose
    heymoose Posts: 682
    edited August 2013

    Love Crab also!!!

  • gardengumby
    gardengumby Posts: 4,858
    edited August 2013

    How could anyone not love crab??  Oh, well, more for those of us who do!!

  • marlegal
    marlegal Posts: 1,492
    edited August 2013

    Crab lover here too. We used to bribe our kids with king crab legs when they were young! They knew that was a special treat and worked for it ... we had no shame :)

  • socallisa
    socallisa Posts: 10,165
    edited August 2013

    we used to get the smaller crabs to cook for linguini and the kids would have

    crab races on the floor before we cooked them

  • heymoose
    heymoose Posts: 682
    edited August 2013

    That must have been fun!!!

  • gardengumby
    gardengumby Posts: 4,858
    edited August 2013

    Did any of them ever get away?  Sometimes those suckers can move out!

  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Posts: 7,605
    edited August 2013

    I couldn't kill them myself, or lobster. I just can't. But I do fish and my family hunts. I do believe in eating what you kill....

  • marlegal
    marlegal Posts: 1,492
    edited August 2013

    We spent many a happy evening at our trailer having blue claw crabs when the kids were young too. Cover that table in paper and go for it! Hub cleaned them first out back ... ripped the backs off (which housed the lungs, etc., so they died instantly) then hosed them down before cooking. Much easier to eat that way and he didn't mind doing all the work, so we let him! The guy we bought our crabs from caught them himself and sometimes if we got there early he was still sorting them. Now and then one could get away and his dog, a great big black lab, would play with it, chasing it around. Fun to watch :) Thanks for that memory Lisa and Garden!

  • mumito
    mumito Posts: 2,005
    edited August 2013

    All this talk of seafood is making me hungry.

  • mumito
    mumito Posts: 2,005
    edited August 2013

    This is how I handle my DH

  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Posts: 7,605
    edited August 2013

    Who! Who!!

    Does that mean that was YOUR shot Mum????

  • chabba
    chabba Posts: 3,600
    edited August 2013

    Love the bird shots!

  • Elisimo
    Elisimo Posts: 1,261
    edited August 2013

    The pictures of tinyfishy are absolutely amazing!  Love this one.  

    I also enjoy all the wonderful pictures the rest of you post, esp. Lisa.

    Hugs to all. AJ

  • socallisa
    socallisa Posts: 10,165
    edited August 2013

    We had fun on a day cruise on the USS Spruance, a guilded missile destroyer on Friday..saw lots of beachy stuff on our way in and out of port...we also saw this ship that was in the movie " Master and Commander"

  • heymoose
    heymoose Posts: 682
    edited August 2013

    The bird pics r great. Love the sailing ships. Reminds me of a sunset dinner cruise my HDTV and I went on in key west. What a great time we had.

  • marlegal
    marlegal Posts: 1,492
    edited August 2013

    great shots Lisa, as always!

  • marlegal
    marlegal Posts: 1,492
    edited August 2013

    While this isn't exactly a beach shot, it was taken on our way down to the beach! Apparently it was dragonfly mating season...they were literally everywhere. I find them fascinating. When we got down to the bay and parked the car, this was the sight that greeted me, right at the door of the car!

  • gardengumby
    gardengumby Posts: 4,858
    edited August 2013

    cool dragon fly pictures.

    Also cool tall ships pictures.  We went out on our boat one year when the tall ships were here in Tacoma.  It was just great!!  I'd post a pic, but they aren't on photo bucket yet, and I'm too tired to deal with it tonight - maybe tomorrow...  :)

  • gardengumby
    gardengumby Posts: 4,858
    edited August 2013

    I checked and had actually already uploaded 'em.  so here ya go...

    It was such a fun day - so many ships came through, but they haven't been here for a few years now.

  • socallisa
    socallisa Posts: 10,165
    edited August 2013

    Love those tall ships

  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Posts: 7,605
    edited August 2013

    Moose, ehhehehehehe, I LOVE your auto-correct on DH!!! hehehehehehehhehe Men all over the world would LOVE it!!! hehheheehhehee

    Lisa, was that a cannot shot I see on the previous page, last pic???

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