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Crabby Summer
July 21 2010 by Karla Henriquez
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Summer is in full swing, and more than likely, you are planning a weekend or vacation getaway somewhere that involves a coast line and eating seafood. If that's the case, be sure to include a crab festival on your itinerary.
On the US east coast which is famous for the Blue variety, Maryland hosts the popular Maryland Seafood Festival, with three days of action-packed crab-related activities: from a crab soup cook off with more than 30 participating restaurants; to a crab cake eating contest and crab picking contest. Held September 10-13 at Sandy Point State Park, this festival has a 40+ year tradition serving up the best of the area's seafood and helping charities at the same time. Proceeds for this year's festival go to help the Maryland Food Bank.
In Nova Scotia, the Bodega Seafood, Art & Wine Festival held August 28-29 which promises to serve up plenty of crab cakes. Located in the western Sonoma wine country, the town of Bodega is just off Highway 1 and is famous for being the site of the filming of Hitchcock's film "The Birds."
And if eating crab is not your thing, you can still enjoy watching crabs strut their stuff at the Mid-Atlantic Hermit Crab Challenge on July 10 in Virginia Beach where crabs run in the Crustacean 500 race or enter the Miss Curvaceous Crustacean Beauty Pageant. At the pageant, hermit crabs are presented in uniquely-decorated displays and judged on beauty and creativity. In addition to main winners, special trophies are also awarded for the Friendliest Crab, Biggest Crab, Most Unique Crab Display, Prettiest Crab Shell and Most Traveled Crab.
Be sure to share reviews on a favorite crab festival near you.
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OMG, I love these crabs!! They are never available here in the wild west!! We live only 11 miles from the ocean too!! It would be the number 1 reason to move back east for me. Retirement is just around the corner. Although the many & terrible heat waves that has hit the Atlantic coast this summer is the number one reason not to move back east!! Such a dilemma!! Any suggestions?