Yabbies and the Frenchman

A new WWOOFer has arrived at Poverty Peak, Chris, a Frenchman from Strasbourg. Nice guy, he actually did some WWOOFing with NotJohn before now which is kind of interesting.

I should have previously mentioned that for the past three nights we here near Gordon have been fishing for Yabbies. Yabbies are basically Crayfish that live in fresh water, like the fresh water at the dam near the windmills! Sadly the net produced nothing at all for the first two nights but on the third (tonight) the net managed to capture five of the little pinchers! One was a female with a clutch of eggs and another was a tiny little thing so they were dropped back into the dam. The other three were dropped into a pot of boiling water and shared between us WWOOFers. They’re nice, not much in the way of flavour, but still nice for a free treat.

They look something like this, before you boil and eat them.