Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/02/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Palmetto gets their oysters in daily from Apalachicola - the best oysters! The only problem with that is that, since the oysters are priced by the dozen for the customers, but the owner pays by the pound, when the oysters are really big, he doesn't order them! I love the big ones and would be willing to pay market price, but he says nobody else in York county would pay over $6.99 a dozen! I think the oysters beds in Apalachicola are pretty regulated - except for the occasional BP contamination :-( Tina On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 12:14 PM, <lrzeitlin at aol.com> wrote: > Tina, > This is why oysters were so cheap. Keep your medical insurance paid up. > The following is an extract from "PUFFIN: An Intracoastal Waterway Log or > 28 Days Before the Mast." I do hope conditions have changed since I > published this a couple of decades ago. > > > "We passed many fishing boats along the waterway in South Carolina > and a couple of oyster dredges. The oyster boats scoured the bottom with a > conveyer belt system that scooped up everything on the river bed and > brought it to the surface on its moving belt. Crewmen picked out the > desirable oysters and clams from amidst the old tires and shoes before the > belt rotated downward toward the bottom again. The residue was dumped back > in the water. These boats appeared to pay not the slightest attention to > the signs?posted every few hundred yards?prohibiting oyster dredging in > polluted areas. Raw oysters and clams suddenly dropped several places on my > seafood appetizer list.? > > > Several small boats were loaded so heavily with oysters that the > gunwales were only an inch or two above the water. A slight wave would have > swamped them and liberated the oysters. We stopped for the night at Cedar > Creek, the last potential anchorage before crossing Pamlico Sound." > > > Larry Z > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Tina Manley http:// <http://tina-manley.artistwebsites.com/>www.tinamanley.com