Scapa Flow is well known as a natural harbour between the South Islands. It has be used in both World Wars. And during both the wars there have been booms, gun emplacements and the rest .We've been to see the 2nd World War gun emplacement when we first visited Flotta in 2010. The museum is on Hoy , but we've not made it that far yet. But Scapa Flow is still connected to the North Sea and Pentland Firth and fishing boats ply their trade. And Jollys of Orkney is on the way home from Kirkwall, so it is convenient to call in and see what they have.
And they had Prawns harvested from Scapa Flow, so we got some and brought them home - pictured above. According to Wikipedia, prawns belong to the crustacean suborder Dendrobranchiata.
And our prawns looked a lot like the one pictured in the wikipedia article.
So they came from Jollys, so being poikilotherms, we kept them in the fridge until the boiling water was ready, a quick immersion for several minutes and the let the water cool a bit , retrieve the now ex-dendobranchiata .
And once shelled,very nice they were as well.
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