MNYahgulnaas

Well, hmmm. Well there's different categories of things. I couldn't say that there's one that applies in all situations. But here's one that is very powerful we just experienced.

On the north coast of Haida Gwaii, formerly called the Queen Charlotte Islands, there is a stretch of sand that goes for... 40 miles. And the terminus is this sliver that stretches way out into the ocean, known to be one of the most ferocious bodies of water on the planet - shallow, GREAT tidal flows, like 24 foot heights - just rushes up against the continent - and incidentally, that's where these fools want to send oil tankers... so this stretch of sand- you can STAND on it, and see NOTHING except the horizon of the ocean, and when you have that vast panoramic view, you realize that the ocean is not flat.

You can see the curvature of the earth.

What appears to be a flat light is bent ever so slightly and what accentuates this is you are standing on the edge of the ocean, on the flat sand, and these small waves are coming towards you - and they come light heartbreats, like a base line in a piece of music, like a metronome. And it comes with such calming regularity that you slip into a meditative trance.

I find myself in my gumboots, and realized my jaw was actually open. I was slack-jawed. I had just toned out.

And that particular morning, my daughter and I, were harvesting crabs. You have a net and waders, and you wade in the water, you just try to get the males, but since it's mating season, sometimes you would be finding them making love - why rip them apart - but we don't eat the females so they can reproduce. You just take the males, and put them in your bucket, and just keep wading. They're very heavy. And you sometimes - you get pinched a lot.

Yes! I thought you'd never ask. Got a pic?

Sure! I would be delighted

I haven't seen it yet. If you say I should go, I'll go! I'm in New York right now!

You can sun-dry it too. It turns a golden yellow coppery color. The eggs collapse due to being dehydrated. It's like potato chips as healthy as kale chips but tastier than both.

It's very rare now.

We're trying not to harvest it now, because we're afraid that herring populations are dropping - like one group of herring that spawn in one bay are completely different than other herring that spawn in another bay. Industrial fishing theory has been saying that each group is the same, and once they fish out one bay - it's GONE. So we are not harvesting much herring spawn anymore. It's quite a rare delicacy. Because herring is a critical food source for the fully functioning ocean in the North Pacific.