Geographe Bay, on the south-west corner of Western Australia, is really a giant fresh seafood supermarket for us. We decide what we feel like eating that evening and go out to pick it off the shelves.
The other day it was abalone. Sometimes we get some crayfish.
The night before last we caught Australian herring, and grilled them on the barbecue with a little lemon juice. Herring, which bear no resemblance to their European counterparts, are the first fish little West Aussies, like Aklie, learn to catch. There’s millions of them and they hit hard at anything – even bits of coloured drinking straws.
Another staple in our (and all West Aussies’) seafood diet is the blue manna crab. The shallow waters of the region teem with them. The easiest way to catch the crabs on a warm summer’s evening to to snorkel off the beach and simply grab them – but gloves are needed as they can can nip.
The crabs are cooked by dropping them into boiling salty water (add several good hand-fulls of salt to the pot) for 5 minutes. Last night we then added them to a spicy seafood pasta sauce. Dinner was washed down with a Flametree Wines SBS – the cellar is literally across the road.
Tonight we are thinking about octopus ceviche.
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Carolyn Herbert
January 27th, 2010
Copyright Permission Request for a Photo on Your Website
To the Braddock Family,
I am writing on behalf of the Barbara Hardy centre for Sustainable Urban Environments at the University of South Australia. The Barbara Hardy Centre is a research centre that focuses on the sustainability of cities, the conservation of biodiversity and the maintenance of the natural processes that sustain life. Our work is underpinned by community participation and education.
The Barbara Hardy Centre is writing a book with the working title ‘101 Animals You See When Walking your Dog’ to be published in 2010/11 by Harper Collins. This book will provide a valuable resource for the Australian public that describes animals that are commonly seen in our cities. We expect no (or very little) profit from this work. If any profit is made it will be directed back into our research.
I am writing to request permission to use the photo of a Blue Manna Crab, featured on your website, within this book:
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by: Submitted by the Braddock Family
published at: http://blog.ourcroatianlife.com/snorkeling-for-blue-manna-crabs/ ‘Snorkeling for Blue Manna Crabs’
Description: Photo of a Blue Manna Crab
Full and correct acknowledgment of the photographer will be provided in the book. We are able to make some reimbursement to you for your work. Please let us know if any fees / charges apply for the use of this photo. If you do grant us copyright permission, could you please send us a high resolution version of this image for the book, we will send you a copyright permission form to sign.
If you do not own the copyright, I would appreciate any information you could provide as to who owns this photo.
Thank you for considering this request. Should you require further clarification or additional information to assist you in processing this request, please do not hesitate to contact me. I look forward to your response.
Kind Regards
Carolyn Herbert