[butterfly sue]

end of June 2013

Headed to Cocoa Beach to our Blue Crab place, The Old Fish House. In April when we stopped in they sold out of crabs. This date we grabbed the last of the 8 medium sized crabs. They also had some small sized ones. Talked to the waiter and was told the crabs are getting scarce and hard to catch. He then told us that they cook them and then freeze them because they don't have that much of a request for them. Hmmmm The crabs were good. For a Friday night not many people in the restaurant and wonder how the business is going.

So Saturday we tried a place I have heard about, Ms Apple's Crab Shack. It is localed on 520 right by where the Indian River crosses on the west side of the river. (580 W. Merritt Island Causeway, Merritt Island, FL) A very interesting place! They are closed on Sundays and Mondays. It is not really a restaurant. They do cook meals for take out (so not everything is crab, but seafood). They also have picnic tables outside with mallets for eating the crab (but no drinks so bring your own if you choose to go this way). For the blue crabs you go to actual tanks where the live crabs are stored and sorted into sizes. You grab a bucket and tongs and pick out your crabs being careful of the pinchers. You can have them cook your selection starting at $2.50 (took 20 minutes). We then hightailed it home and ate them. We bought 12 large size with the cooking and the bill came out to $40 which is reasonable. They did not have much in the large size when we were there, but we were advised that two boats were delivering around 2pm.

So if you want to enjoy some cool ocean breezes and then enjoy blue crabs, this may be the place for you.