stewartb said:
Ernie,
I get to Hawaii occasionally. I find it humerous that I can buy King Crab cheaper in Kahului than I can in Anchorage, and I can buy Mahi Mahi cheaper here than there.
We used to go King Crabbing in Kachemak Bay before the blight. If you ever get the chance to tear crab clusters off of live crabs and drop them right into a steamer, you will taste heaven. Hot crab and a cold beer. Mmm, mmm good.
SB
Ah, the good life SB. What a way to live but I have never been King Crabbing nor clam digging. There is a 50 ton whaling story at Barrow though. Extra big hook?
How about this. At North Pole, the refinery there has to pay the same price for crude oil as OPEC sells it for and the crude comes out of the pipeline out of Prudhoe Bay so the price of gas and diesel goes up. I know the costs of production there has not really gone up. Price depends on what people will pay I guess or what some government VIP..........woops, better not say that.
Just a kid out of high school in 1957 and working for the Federal Alaska Railroad stationed at Bird Point (yes, very, very near the old Bird House), I helped put up a fish net some distance out on the mud flats. Every tide someone had to go out and clean the net and backpack the Kings back in. Being the kid, I was always assigned to do it. Although used to throwing 120 pound bales of hay on the farm, I could only pack one King at a time and only had time for two trips per tide. Always scarry on that second trip though. One mistake and the tide gets you and the mud flats can become quicksand in seconds.
Besides having plenty of grilled steaks, we smoked over 1000 pounds of kings that summer using alder and oak chips from the car shop in Anchorage in a home made smoker. You would be surprised how many reasons we found to take the railroad pickup into town for something and come back with wood chips. Oh was that salmon good with a cool one or two and since it was only a 20 man crew (one female cook) there was enough for all.
By the way I had to start a second thread to resize the posts correctly.
Remember SB, Maui no ka 'oi, right?
Ernie