All Lobster ... All the Time

After our great week in Utila, I had convinced Greg to come to Placencia for a visit. And it worked perfectly to be in conjunction with the annual Placencia Lobsterfest.

It is basically a huge celebration of Lobster Season which opened June 15.  Many of the restaurants have a booth and cook their best lobster creations. There are ways people have found to use lobster that I never would have thought of. Here is a sample of some of the menus:

Lime lobster muffins? Who would have thought ...

Well I don't think they mean a story about lobster, but you get the idea ...

Some were better priced than others and a whole lobster could range in size ...

On Thursday night Greg and I visited a local restaurant, Omar's Creole Grub (this is the same Omar who I tried to buy a ferry ticket from a couple weeks earlier). He had a dinner that included a lobster tail. It was a bit pricey and the tail wasn't that big but it whet his appetite.

On Friday when we visited lobster fest after wandering to see what everyone offered and the price this is the place Greg chose:

So Greg go the type of Lobster meal he was looking for. And he got his picture on the Placencia Lobsterfest Facebook page.

Photo Credit: Marion Carr, Copyright Muzamanzie Photographs

In addition to all the food booths they had booths where local artisans sold their wears .... baskets and jewelry made by the mayan villagers of Punta Gorda, local jewelry makes and woodworkers. There are some of the most beautiful wood carvers in this village. They use hardwood species of Rosewood,, ericote Wood, Mahogany and driftwood.

This is Leo, who owns "Made in Belize". He has some of the most gorgeous carvings  both
large and small including a huge saiilfish carving that is incredible. Photo Credit: Marion & Ed Carr, Copyright Muzamanzie Photogoraphs.

More beautiful wood carings including these two little tables made with vertical dolphins holding up
the glass top.  I want. Photo Credit: Marion & Ed Carr, Copyright Muzamanzie Photographs

Photo Credit: Marion & Ed  Carr, Copyright Muzamanzie Photographs

The rest of Greg's visit was spent mostly visiting the regular hangouts, 2 Can B Sweet coffee shop and bakery for the amazing cinnamon rolls. Above Grounds coffee for their awesome coffee, juices, bagels and other baked goods,  Tipsy Tuna for beer and world cup soccer, Barefoot Bar for food and beer, Pickled Parrot for beer and Lionfish and Chips (Greg's favorite I think next to the Lobster).

Speaking of lionfish, on the Friday that the Lobsterfest started they had a lionfish tournament. The seas have been a little rough of late and three boats went out. I haven't yet gotten the exact numbers or had this confirmed but was told that the winning boat caught 356 lionfish, the second boat caught about 350. That is a lot of lionfish.

I think this is the catch off one of the boats. Photo Credit: Marion & Ed Carr, Copyright Muzamanzie Photographs

I will try and update the numbers for the lionfish tournament as well as some of the numbers and information for the fishing tournament that took place over the lobsterfest weekend.

So happy to have had Greg come for a visit. A bit unfair maybe that our thinking had turned already towards Utila and I didn't really take him on any of the available tours so he didn't get to see the Chocolate Factory or Monkey River ... maybe another time we'll come back and he can see those things.

My focus right now is culling my belongings once again and I would really really really like to get my four suitcases down to two for my move to Utila. And I'm working on different ideas of how I'll get there.