Crab festival winds up today

A celebration for one of the North Olympic Peninsula’s “crabbiest” residents is on tap this weekend.

The Dungeness Crab & Seafood Festival concludes in Port Angeles and Sequim today.

The event is being called three events in one because it features a festival at John Wayne Marina, the Port Angeles Crab Derby at City Pier from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. and a North Olympic Peninsula Restaurant tour across the area.

Officials from 7 Cedars Casino and Clallam Transit will provide free shuttle service to the festival because there is no parking available at the marina.

Shuttle service will be from 9:45 a.m. to 7:15 p.m. from 7 Cedars Casino, 270756 Highway 101, and from three locations in downtown Sequim — Lehman’s Court, 145 E. Washington St.; Seal Street next to the Sequim Open Aire Market; and from a parking area next to Blake Sand & Gravel, 490 S. Blake Ave.

Admission to the festival is free.

Today at John Wayne Marina

* 11 a.m.: Anthony Harris of the Port Angeles CrabHouse Restaurant will prepare mussels in smoked salmon cream sauce and demonstrate filleting king salmon.

* Noon: Bill Boynton from Dupuis’ Restaurant of Port Angeles will prepare cioppino.

* 1 p.m.: David Centers of Bella Italia in Port Angeles will prepare a savory crab strudel.

* 2 p.m.: Jeremy Lape from Khu Larb Thai II Restaurant of Sequim will prepare a prawn sauté with peanut sauce.

* 3 p.m.: Anthony Frechette from Petals Garden Café of Sequim will prepare crab cakes.

* 4 p.m.: Harris will prepare a Dungeness crab tower, shrimp and crab wontons and grilled shrimp “martini” with tomato horseradish sorbet and avocado.

* 5 p.m.: Bob Bentley of the Olympic Peninsula Enological Society will educate guests about wines and seafood.

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