A day + 12 - 12 December - Seafood day

This day we took it of to rest of the previous days excursions, and we previously decided we should try the australian seafood.
We were lucky in the previous dqys since today was raining a lot! During the morning we we were under a non-stop strong tropical rain storm
We had already reviewed some of the Airlie beach seafood restaurant reviews in tripadvisor and other sites but during one of the excursions, one of the crew members ( that shall remain anonymous ;-)) said to us the best we could do was to go directly to Buck's seafood shop at Whitesundays shopping centre and buy shrimps and moreto bay bugs. He said it was much cheaper and we would get fresher seafood than at any restaurant in the area. So we decided to follow his advise and the day before we went to the seafood store and to the grocery and got ourselves the ingredients:

1) mayonese, chilli peper, parsley and garlic. We already had the butter and bought a couple of beers from the apartments reception









2) 600g of Green banana shrimps. The seafood shop had run out of king prawns :-( but these looked also decent sized and tasty.









3) 4 Moreto bay bugs already boiled. These lobster like creatures looked similar to the small atlantic lobsters or the "bruxas" or "cavacos" also found in the portuguese coast.



















So we followed the recipe that the lady in the seafood shop gave us. peel the shrimps, put a bit of butter , garlic, chilli pepper and stir for 4-6 mins. We also added parsley and black pepper for extra taste










And here is the end result:








Then we proceeded to cut the bugs and clean them as they explained us to do it.








The black and yellow guts you see in the next picture were removed










And we also prepared some dips : a "pink" dip with chilli and a bit of the remaining shiraz I bought for the previous meals, a parsley one and a garlic one








And here is the resulting seafood feast we had that cost only us 20AUD in seafood and an extra 10-12 AUD in the remaining ingredients!








It was a lovely meal and we are very gald we followed the advice that was given to us! The bugs are defibetely a must since they are more tasty and have softer than lobster.
The smell must have been nice since it even attracted some wild life: a cuckatoo came to take a peak when the rain stoped in the afternoon









After the rain stoped a bit we still managed to have a walk downtown in Airlie beach to have a lastblook at the stores. Because of the rain, every turist looked miserable and bored and most of the people spent the afternoon in the town bars trying to forget the bad weather by drinking it away;-)

It was a pity the heavy rain or otherwise we would have spent the afternoon at the Airlie beach pond, its public swimming pool. Well maybe a next time
;-)
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