Comment on sea urchins

Forgot to mention - after rhapsodizing about uni in a previous post, there was another sea urchin experience. While riding around a few weeks ago, I had dropped by the harbor at Point Arena to ogle the ab divers. Despite the low tide, there weren't any, just some fishermen. As I came buy, one of them reeled up a sea urchin he had snagged. Never seen that happen before! He placed it on the rail of the dock, and I couldn't help but stare. I was pretty sure he was just going to throw it back, and that would be terrible, so I wanted to at least ensure that it was not wasted. So I said "Hey, you know you can eat those, right?" He smiled and said "yeah". So I hope it was good.

(BTW, you have NOT seen hotness until you check out the abalone diving crowd. The legal harvest here is something like a quarter million per year, so there's lots of sportsmen going after them. It's the standard Mendocino County masculinity test, the canonical rite of passage, fodder for literally decades of lecking and bragging. Aside from the otter angle and the rubber fetish angle, it bears mentioning that these guys specialize in holding their breath for LONG periods of time. Unfortunately they also carry large iron bars, so I prefer to observe from a distance. ;-)