PORT ANGELES — Fresh crab and other goodies will be featured today in the last day of the 17th annual Dungeness Crab & Seafood Festival.
Here is today’s schedule:
• 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. — Crab Revival, a nondenominational musical service at The Gateway pavilion at Front and Lincoln streets.
• 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. — Feiro Marine Life Center open at City Pier.
• 10 a.m. 2 p.m. — Captain Joseph House Chowder Cook-Off in the Clallam Transit Center lanes west of The Gateway pavilion.
• 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. — 75 arts and crafts, nonprofit, food and sponsor booths and the Windermere Real Estate Pier Stage on City Pier.
• 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. — High Tide Seafoods & Wilder Auto Grab-a-Crab Tank Derby at City Pier.
• 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. — Crab feed dinner ($29.95 for full crab dinner; $16 for half crab dinner), eight restaurants, oyster bar, wine and beer and live music in the Kitsap Bank Crab Central Pavilion.
• 11:30 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. — Cooking demonstrations at The Gateway pavilion.
• Noon to 5 p.m. — Behind the scenes at the CrabFest (Washington Festivals and Events Association Seminar requires registration at wfea.org)
• 2 p.m. — Captain Joseph House Chowder Cook-Off award ceremony.
• 5 p.m. — Festival closes.
For more information, see www.crab festival.org.
Six-year-old Aiden Heinz of Kent recoils at a crab he had just caught in the crab derby on Friday with assistance from Puget Sound Anglers Club members Cliff Straub, left, and Robert Rohner, both of Sequim. The crab derby is a featured event at the the Dungeness Crab & Seafood Festival in Port Angeles. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
Andrew Thomas of Dallas, left, and Malik Moore of Las Vegas, both members of the Peninsula College basketball team, prepare cooked crabs for successful crab derby participants at Port Angeles City Pier. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
