Oyster Shucking
A Little Background:
The 15th Annual BC Wine & Oyster Festival was hosted by Coast Harbourside Hotel & Marina in Victoria BC with proceeds going to the Greater Victoria Eldercare Foundation. Ang and I got to attend as part of the New Victoria for New Media tour hosted by Coast Hotels & Resorts.
And Why Can I Really Shuck?
Here are just two reasons:
- The Festival took place on June 19th and it’s taken me three weeks to get these pictures up. :S
- I got to shuck an oyster at the festival!
If you ever attend one of these festivals, you should note a few things:
- Almost everyone will be dressed up
- Napkins are your friend if you plan to eat oysters (especially if it’s as windy as it was this year)
- Come early! Within a half hour the Cheese and Chocolates tables were devoured. They made sure to bring more oysters and wine than could be consumed though.
The event was really well put together and you could tell Coast Hotels & Resorts had been doing this for a while. There was so many tables of different wines and beers set up that I did feel a little bad for sampling only three. Ang and I were more interested in the Oysters, having just come from an incredible cider tasting at Sea Cider.
By the way, the oysters were DE-LISH. We ate so many big oysters, small oysters, cooked oysters, plain oysters, oysters with tabasco (which really burned my buds and all I could do was wash it down with more oysters and white wine), and oysters with lemon and other sauces that we were pretty full before we even left for dinner at The Noodle Box.
Here are some pictures from that night:
