Our time here is drawing short and on Monday we head north
by northwest, driving first to Rapid City and then on to Star Valley, Wyoming.
However there are still things to do here and it mostly revolves around shrimp.
Hearing that the shrimp boats were front lining we headed to
the Grand Isle bridge to watch them fighting for the best spot. During the
outgoing tide the shrimp boats fill the pass, all trying to achieve the
frontline of boats. (boats in back catch few shrimp).
If they are successful they then partly lower their nets,
(if in shallow water they call this butterflying as they resemble a butter fly
with outstretched wings). Then with their motors always running they crowd the
legal and imaginary line as the shrimp swim with the outgoing tide, right into
the boats open nets.
The net result of course, pardon the pun, is shrimp to sell
at the shrimp factory. There customers wait in line, meaning us, and we filled
our cooler with thirty pounds of sixteen-twenties, (this means that there are
16-20 shrimp per pound costing $5.50 per pound). The next step is to hurry home
and then break heads before placing shrimp for two into vacuum bags and then
the freezer.
So now our freezers are full and hopefully we have enough
shrimp and fish to keep us living the high life during our summer season in
Wyoming. Who knows, if you stop by and visit, and we haven’t eaten all the
shrimp, we might even make, “po’boys”! If we have eaten them we can always make
you cornbread. Clear skies
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