Crabfest 2009

Well lets just say life on Andros isn't always about Church - sometimes you have to party and there is no time like Crabfest!

Andros is loaded with land crabs the size of greatfruit - loaded! During the cooler winter months they tunnel underground and stay there till the rainy season drives them above ground. Well if you've read this blog or my page on facebook you know it's been rainy and the crabs are out! This weekend is the annual Andros Crabfest where literally hundred and hundreds of people from the US and the other Bahamian islands flood Andros to have a good time and eat crab in as many ways as you can imagine - Stuffed Crab, Crab and Rice, Crab Soup, Crab with Dumplings, the list goes on and on.

Well the party started Thursday and it will end late Sunday. Here are a few pics of me chowing down and the party that will go into the wee hours of the morning.

Yes, that's right, the crab body makes a wonderful bowl for baked stuffed crab.

Now be nice, I know what it looks like but its a dumpling. Ginni remembered we had the camera with us after I had demolished this bowl of Crab and Dumpling soup (yes it is a dumpling). When I started this was filled with ham, rice, crab, dumplings, crab, a brown gravy/sauce to die for - and did I say crab?

Old grilles never die - they retire to the Bahamas where we put wood and charcoal in the base and crank it up. One of our parishioners had a booth and we went round back and watched as he grilled up some BBQ chicken - fantastic!

And for dessert - Guava Duff! This is a fantastic Bahamian dessert - a sweet cake topped with guava fruit then once its cut and put on your plate, covered with a white creamy sauce. Ginni sopped up every bit of that sauce with the duff to get it all!

And after eating all that, you need to work it off - we also had a live band and singers/dancers galore.

The show was great, with all the bells and whistles of a state of the art hi tech production. Lets just say that when Bahamians party they don't hold back at all (Hey Mon, it was off da chain).

The surprise of surprises for Androsians - traffic. We actually had traffic jams with wall to wall cars, pedestrians, motorcycles, police - it was just like Yawkey way after a Red Sox game in Boston!

Love to tell you more but I have to get up and preach in the morning - enough for now.

Party on