Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/02/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Simplest to turn vegetarian, far less health risk, on the whole...(-: Cheers Jayanand On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 10:44 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