Unleash your inner predator and celebrate the bounty of ‘Red Gold’ in Great White Shark territory this April. Slurp, chomp, guzzle and lick your lips as you feast on kreef, South Africa’s scrumptious rock lobster. This festival is sure to titillate your taste-buds, assuring delectable seafood which will include abalone, crayfish and calamari. Kick back and relax to a cool line-up of entertainment and look out for Mej Krefie! For those who need to quench their thirst, a trip to the beer tent will be the order of the day... need we say more? Alongside the flea market there will be a fun fair so even the kids are guaranteed to have an awesome day!
Need to know? Venue: Laerskool Gansbaai Entry fee: R100 for adults and R50 for children. Tickets are available at the entrance. Gates open at 09:00. Mej Krefie competion: Takes place on Saturday, 4 April 2009 as part of the Wedding Expo, Pretorius Hall.
Funky Kreef Facts
• Crayfish who have the fancy Latin name of Jasus Lalandii can reach an age of 40 years.
• Until 1953, our local kreef was known as Crawfish or Spiny Lobster – until Parliament amended the Crawfish Act of 1940 by the substitution for the name.
• At 7 years of age, a female crayfish produces about 200’000 eggs of which only 1% reach maturity.
• Female crayfish may take up to 20 years to reach a catch-able size.
• In the previous centuries, fishermen regarded crayfish as a pest and would toss them overboard when caught in their nets.
• Wagon loads of dead crayfish used to be collected and sold to farmers as fertilizer!