Tuatua Harvesting | Fun Weekend at Southshore

I am a lover of seafood, even my first time of having Tuatua I didn't know the name and my Philippino flatmates struggled to tell me it's name but who cares, it tasted like mussels and I love it 😀

They had gone to harvest it at Southshore beach ⛱️ which isn't too far from us, just about ±15 km drive. So I told them to let me know when next they go harvest so I can go with.

Boy it turned out to be fun and to be quite honest I don't recall ever having so much fun on the beach at some point I felt like just rolling in the water even though I can't swim 😃

@heroldius have asked me in the past if I dipped my toes in the water. This time, I didn't just dip I knelt and dug Tuatua out of the sand 😃

We harvested over 200 of Tuatua, I don't even bother about cooking because these Philippinos are so good in the kitchen, and I must say they are very nice and humble people. Most of my colleagues are Philippinos, too.

https://youtube.com/shorts/SS4L-exjz_g?si=84b6GlitIoZD2BX8

And then came a dog that was interested in the stick I was using to dig out T, atua from the sa, d. The dogs wanted to play lol, I eventually threw the stick, and the dog chased after it, got the stick, and didn't return it to me 🤣

Oh, it was officially the beginning of Autumn 🍂 and it turned out to be a warm day in Christchurch. It really was a fun day for me at the beach ⛱️