Haha, Coconut crabs! We finally were able to move today. We paid out chain and drove forward on each stuck point but no movement. We finally dove on the anchor and the chain was stuck on reef nothing more than 50 feet from the anchor. The chain was stuck between two pieces of coral sticking up from a bombie. We were so happy that it took only a short 83 foot dive to place the chain outside of stuck points to which Wade dove inside a cave to pull the anchor chain out of the stuck point. With Sara’s wide dive eyes making sure he was okay and no other critters were around to eat us.
After we were free we maneuvered through shallow bombies to anchor at our most favorite place so far. The depth is 40 feet and you can see bottom from the back of the boat. We launched Kalo, the Phantom 4, and photographed aerial pictures of this amazing anchorage and realized we might have anchored 20 feet further and never worry about wrapping another bombie.
As we went for our afternoon swim we found one of the best snorkeling spots so far and where the dinghy was beached there were several coconut crabs. Wade being the nut he is stuck his hand down a couple of holes and snagged 4 coconut crabs. We immediately boiled water with a little lemon to kill some smell and a little Sriracha (which we couldn’t taste) in the water. Overall super tasty but too small really. The legs were great and Wade ate the bodies as they were too much work for Sara.
Wade pulled the lid off the cockpit grey bucket and grabbed the crabs one by one to put in the boiling water. He became brave on the second batch and grabbed two little ones and one pinched him super hard and made a break for the ocean. The other crab hid in the dive compressor. Wade snagged him and threw him in the pot. This amazing dinner is one of the amazing adventures of the prettiest anchorages.
Wade and Sara
Update from previous post: The watermaker is working like a champ we have two full water tanks.
