by The Captain | Oct 22, 2025 | All Stories, Rum and rations
If you’ve made it this far into issue 10 of The Captain, you’ve probably learned that abalone are served at Chinese banquets. In some cultures they’re rumoured to be an aphrodisiac. So it’s time to dim the lights, put some music on and serve your lady friend (or...
by The Captain | Oct 12, 2021 | Adventures, All Stories
It might be his Italian background, or maybe it’s because he grew up in a remote coastal town like Marlo. Kyle Dicecco has a unique ability to make the simple look beautiful. While most of us are striving to strip back the layers, he’s already camped there. Need a...
by The Captain | Oct 24, 2018 | Adventures, All Stories
He’s got a job and lifestyle many young men dream about. He owns cool boats, cool trucks and drinks like a fish. He also happens to earn a living under the water, rather like a fish. But he assures The Captain it’s seriously hard work (the drinking, that is). Grant...
by The Captain | Oct 24, 2018 | Adventures, All Stories
They’re the bigfoot of the ocean floor. The humble abalone (Haliotis) is a marine snail — or more precisely a univalve mollusc with a flat, smooth, pale, oval shell, containing a large muscular “foot” with a frill or lip. This rounded foot is very large in...
by The Captain | Oct 24, 2018 | Adventures, All Stories
Abalone — most people wouldn’t know what it was if they stubbed their toe on it at the beach. Underneath an iridescent mother-of-pearl shell is a muscly piece of meat about the size of a teenager’s fist. This magnificent mollusc is so prized in Asia that most of these...
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