Excellent! I'll put that on the itinerary...
Yep lobster...mmm round these parts...everyone has a lobster pot out in the channel...I know you hate me
The best way to eat lobster...ok this is TD's eff everyone I'm outta here escape...
(usually check local weather conditions....we don't tend to do that here...you have a look south..SSW....at the horizon over antarctica, and make a prediction ...oh a good tip...if when you're backing your boat down the ramp....the boat rises and falls rapidly in your rear view mirror....stay home....it's a bit choppy...
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Ring your mate with the boat...(thats the key...he's gotta clean the effin thing after!)
Take a day to haul gear, kids, and camping crap to ...well we have our places..
As you go drop a few pots in the channel and take a wide berth round the bottom of B Island...deeper water....then curve back to where we go....get setup, play with kids...
Setup a fire the next morning...billy on the jib ...huge pot of water on the boil....everyone is asleep, they'll dig the heat when they get up...it can be as low as 2 or 3C first thing in the morning, even in summer
Quick blast out and around B. Island, big loop sweeping back through the channel...we'll look for prawns with lights as they run the channel..it's early...dark....but it's a good time to be alive
As each pot comes up, the lobsters are halved lengthways and plunged into iced water, drowned in lemon juice or lime...packed in the freezer box...prawns...they're handled with less care...and are dumped in hold....2 hours round trip give or take...about 5am back at the beach.
Him and I will dump a lobby each on the coals to colour them and increase the flavour..the lime has already cooked them by the time we get back....
Everyone is asleep. The sun rises over B. Island...cracked pepper and rock salt on top...Tassies Lobster a la Naturale...
Irish coffee from the boiling water....roll a number....finish it off....
The kids start making noises...the world sparkles
I got five acres and about 10 rooms available over 2 houses...about a 2 hour trip with a decent boat to some of the most southern uninhabited parts of the world .......who's really good at cooking lobster over an open fire?