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Complete Seafood Experience

At 5 stalls the discoverer could complete an activity or answer a question-at SAWIN our activity was to colour in or identify 1 of the species oyster, abalone, blue crab, prawn, snapper, rocklobster, and yelloweyed mullet. We had a terrific response to the colouring in which was also its own competition with a winner each day for a Seafood Story Book and a Toys R Us voucher. With over 100 entries each day it was a random selection not a talent competition and we will put these pictures to good use in some public displays. Other stops were at PIRSA for information, SARDI to look at the aquarium, Oceanwatch to play snakes and ladders or find out about the BRDs and find a fishy fact or more at Wildcatch

There were a total of 36 stalls to look at including SARDI, PIRSA, Australian Fisheries and Maritime Academy, the Naval association, the history of the Salvemini Family, Quinn Marine, Southern Fishermans Association, a net boat and net fisherman, an abalone boat and abalone fisherman, Oceanwatch/SEANET, Wildcatch, Najaars Cafe, Outback Pride products & cooking demos by Indigenous Chef Mark Olive.  Seafood for sale included Kinkawooka mussels, Coorong Wild Seafood fresh and smoked fish, Zimmerman Fisheries fresh seafood and Oysters from Smoky Bay and Stansbury.

An added bonus was the attendance of 2 Gulf St Vincent Prawn trawlers and a crab boat at the wharf and this was the main thoroughfare for people to get to and from the festival car park.

Completion of the Seafood Discovery Trail brought people back to the SAWIN stall for entry into the daily prizes of 1^st- $200 seafood voucher from the Fish Factory, Pikes Wines, Toys R Us voucher and Oceanwatch merchandise. 2^nd$100 seafood voucher, Pikes Wines, Toys R Us voucher and Oceanwatch merchandise. 3^rd - $50 seafood voucher, Pikes wines, Toys R Us voucher and Oceanwatch Merchandise.

SAWIN used the opportunity to give away copies of the Cook and WIN No 2 cookbook and a gold coin donation for the Cook and WIN No 1 cookbook as well as distribute information leaflets. This now means we only have a few copies of the cookbooks left and can concentrate on new editions.

We have just heard that this part of the Festival is to be repeated next year, so the task will be to attract more than the 18,000 people to the Complete Seafood Experience of the 27,000 attendees to the Port Festival. It was a great weekend with free entry to the Maritime, Aviation and Railway museum and the inclusion of a local artist sales area. We can’t vouch for this personally because those of us at the Complete Seafood Experience didn’t get an opportunity to get out and about as it was so wonderfully busy. There was a real positive vibe from all of the viewers and participants.

SAWIN thanks all of the stallholders and attendees for making it such a successful day and of course our volunteers, without whom we could not participate in these types of events.

Some of the entires to the colouring competition

There are some very colourful fish!!

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