Lobster

The Slipper Lobster

Over fifty species of this warm-water lobster live in the sea, some of them right in front of our door step.
They were offered by us from a young trying to make a living with fishing. Nothing about big fish trawlers, some of these fishermen own small wooden boats with an outboard engine that they always have to take home when they are not by the boat. Strangers like to come up in the night and steal the engines to sell them over to Trinidad. An outboard engine allows some criminal subjects a living as a drug smuggler.
We prefer to support the young man in a more traditional occupation and buy the seafood from him.

Although we see ourselves confronted with animals we've never seen before...
... like this Calico lobster!


We've asked the young man if he would hold some Octopus, known in Grenada as Sea cats, for us. He explained us that he would need some fins to be able to dive deep enough to catch sea cats. So we made a deal: we lent him the money for the fins and he is paying it back to us by bringing us seafood, we pay him a fair price and from each pound he brings we hold back a small amount of the money to reduce his debts. It seems as he wants to get rid of his debts as soon as possible, we are getting a few pounds now almost every day, the deep freezer is getting full rapidly and our guests are happy!

The Balmain bug
is it one or is it not? In Grenada known us "bug" it looks very similar to what we have found in books and on the internet named by "the Balmain bug". It is another species of the Slipper lobster and it is delicous as well!
 - not so pretty though :-)


pure and delicious