A Day at the Oyster Farm

The second part of our day was visiting an oyster farm. Here we roasted and ate fresh saltwater oysters, watched women shucking oysters (note the number of shells and that was just what we saw for the short time we were there) took a boatride through mangroves where we saw egrets and cormorants, and observed the netting process to pull up the oysters. The guide throws a net in a circular manner and then pulls up the oysters. We were quite lucky because caught in the net was a live seahorse. The guide said he had been doing this for years and this was only the second time he had netted a seahorse. We did return the seahorse safely to the water.