Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/02/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Larry skis but does not eat oysters? Sent from my iPhone Sonny Carter http://www.SonC.com/look > On Feb 16, 2014, at 11:32 AM, Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> wrote: > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information