Get Shucked. Excuse me!! / myLot

Rockingham, Australia

June 22, 2018 4:40pm CST

Yesterday we went to Bruny Island. While there we lashed out (became extravagant) and had half a dozen oysters each and a nice glass of char-donn-ay (bad word) at a place called ‘Get Shucked’. To ‘shuck’ an oyster is to prise it open but I thought the name was clever. Get Shucked is a locally owned and operated oyster farm with drive-through sales and a popular café. The farm cultivates the Pacific oyster, Crassostrea gigas, which is not native to Tasmania and was first introduced in the 1940’s. Most oysters start life as male and change to female later. Baby oysters drift around till they’re about 7mm long and too heavy to float. The ‘spat’, as they are called, then attach themselves to something hard. It takes up to 4 years to grow to harvestable size but most are harvested at two years. They can live up to 30 years. And an experienced operator can open 200 dozen oysters a day. I wonder if they get RSI? The 'bike' was out the front. Don't you love the saddle?

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Shavkat

@Shavkat (137238)

• Philippines

23 Jun 18

I do like the old bike. It is a perfect to capture the local people.

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Shavkat

@Shavkat (137238)

• Philippines

24 Jun 18

@JudyEv I had also seen it. I think it is cool.

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (326498)

• Rockingham, Australia

24 Jun 18

Did you see the horse saddle sitting on it?

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Fiacre Banks

@xFiacre (12640)

• Ireland

22 Jun 18

@judyev My son had mussels tonight when we took him out for dinner. I don't really do shell fish myself - don't understand them. I had calamari.

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (326498)

• Rockingham, Australia

24 Jun 18

Chilli mussels and fries (moules et frites) were de rigeur all over France it seemed. We enjoyed them a few times.

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caopaopao

@caopaopao (12395)

• China

23 Jun 18

I don't know anything about oysters. Glad to know that.Thanks for sharing.

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (326498)

• Rockingham, Australia

24 Jun 18

I didn't know anything about them either. I'm always learning stuff when we travel.

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caopaopao

@caopaopao (12395)

• China

24 Jun 18

@JudyEv That's a good way to learn.

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M.-L.

@MALUSE (69409)

• Germany

22 Jun 18

Interesting facts about oysters. What does RSI mean?

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Fiacre Banks

@xFiacre (12640)

• Ireland

22 Jun 18

Repetitive strain injury, unless it means something rude down under.

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M.-L.

@MALUSE (69409)

• Germany

23 Jun 18

@xFiacre Aha. I hate abbreviations. Why do so many members think that all members from all over the world for whom English is not the native language know what they know?

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (326498)

• Rockingham, Australia

24 Jun 18

@xFiacre No, it means the same here too. Now you have me thinking what I could make of it that would be rude.

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Valerie J. Routhieaux

@just4him (307773)

• Green Bay, Wisconsin

24 Jun 18

I've never had oysters. They're quite expensive here. I'm glad you enjoyed them. Yes, that's a nice saddle on the bike.

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Judy Evans

@JudyEv (326498)

• Rockingham, Australia

26 Jun 18

They are expensive here too and I rarely have them. But we've lashed out once or twice while we've been away.

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Darcy Nemo

@YrNemo (20261)

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23 Jun 18

So all oysters are transgenders

. We sort of 'lashed out' when we visited Hong Kong, at a famous restaurant on the Victoria Peak (The Peak Lookout). My husband got sick badly that night! (He ordered their expensive oysters!)