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EVENT<br />
Oysters tempt the taste buds<br />
of thousands<br />
Bluff’s annual Oyster and Food<br />
Festival attracted thousands again<br />
this year to sample the juicy molluscs<br />
and other mouth-watering seafood.<br />
Donna Wells of Nelson’s Finestkind has<br />
been promoting her region’s scallops at<br />
the festival for the past eight years and<br />
says it’s well worth the trek from one end<br />
of the South Island to the other.<br />
This year’s event didn’t disappoint.<br />
“It was amazing. A dream run.<br />
The Bluff Oyster and Food Festival is<br />
very well managed and takes care a<br />
lot of infrastructure which is of great<br />
assistance to stall holders,” Wells says.<br />
“The presentation is unique, as is<br />
the festival itself. It was a great day –<br />
over 5000 people having fun, excellent<br />
entertainment and great experience all<br />
around really.”<br />
Participating with such an expensive<br />
product and the logistics of getting<br />
there are challenging, she says.<br />
“It’s about being there and<br />
promoting seafood – that’s what I do.”<br />
Cando Fishing Co food stall with their fresh<br />
kina, paua patties, marinated fish and smoked<br />
salmon ‘n crackers. during the festival,<br />
Images: Dianne Manson<br />
The Ascot Hotel Emberz food stall’s barbequed<br />
Bluff oysters with garlic butter at the festival.<br />
Graeme Wright, Barnes Oysters with Finestkind’s<br />
Donna Wells.<br />
38 | <strong>Seafood</strong> New Zealand | Volume 24 No. 3
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