Spiny!

Welcome to Spiny Lobsters at Cappo Seafood.

Lobster for our New Year's Eve dinner!

Every year Paladian and I go to Cappo's Factory Store to buy our fresh lobster for our traditional New Year's Eve Feast. Enjoyed with a glass of local Sav Blanc. With lobster so incredibly expensive in Australia, this is our annual treat. Most of the catch is frozen for export where it goes for high prices, primarily in Japan. Some also goes to top restaurants around the world and can even be found in USA.

We were waiting for the store to open early this morning, camera around my neck. I asked the guy serving us if I could take a photo or two inside the store. He very kindly offered to hold up the lobster for me to photograph it in-situ, before he wrapped it. Seen even SPINIER in large!

I also took a few more photos in the store showing some of their other seafood items. You can see these seafood photos in my BLOG, where I left in the prices per kilo out of interest to blippers overseas.

Spiny Lobster is a general name given to about four dozen species of clawless lobster found in the cold waters of the Southern Hemisphere. In this case, from the waters off Robe, South Australia.

In addition to the lack of claws, our local spiny lobster is distinguished from the American lobster by the sharp, short spines along the length of the tail and body. Spiny lobsters are beautifully marked with bright green, blue and yellow spots on an orange shell.

Cappo Seafood is a South Australian owned, family business committed to selling the finest seafood. They have a huge range with locally caught stock and some imported items not found in Australian waters. They have their own boats for much of their locally caught fish.

The Cappo family were early Italian migrants, starting out in in 1919 at Port Pirie, South Australia. They were pioneers of the Seafood Processing Industry in our state.

We have been regular Cappo customers since the mid-2000s when they opened Cappo's factory direct Gourmet Store on Glen Osmond Road, Parkside. You may have guessed - we love our seafood!