What Should You Actually Serve With A Lobster Meal?
Ask the people who eat lobster most often what they serve alongside it and the answer is startlingly consistent. Melted butter. That is the list. Push a little harder and you might get corn on the cob and some potatoes. Push harder still and someone will suggest the...
When Is Lobster In Season, And Why Does Seasonality Still Matter?
Ask when Australian lobster is in season and you will get four different answers, all of them correct, because the question is really four questions wearing one coat. When can it legally be caught. When is there plenty of it. When is it cheapest. And when does it...
Why Does Lobster Taste So Different Depending On How It Is Cooked?
Here is something worth admitting up front about lobster seafood generally, and rock lobster in particular. The flavour is delicate. Mild, faintly sweet, lightly briny, closer to a very good white fish than to anything strong. Which means it is easily overwhelmed. Ask...
How To Tell When Lobster Is Fresh And Actually Good Quality
Most advice about buying fresh lobster stops at smell it and check it moves. Both are true and neither is enough, because fresh and good quality are two different questions. A lobster can be caught this morning, handled perfectly, and still be watery and disappointing...
What Makes Western Rock Lobster Different From Other Lobster Species?
If you have flown in from somewhere with cold Atlantic winters, the first western rock lobster you see will look wrong. There are no big front claws. Just a heavy, armoured tail, long whip like antennae and a body built like something that has been surviving on a reef...
What Makes a Coastal Venue Perfect for a Corporate Christmas Party?
Choosing a corporate Christmas party venue WA teams will remember often comes down to one simple idea. The right setting turns a work function into an experience people talk about long after the year ends. A coastal location, with open water views and fresh air,...
What Should You Wear and Bring on a Cervantes Boat Tour?
Planning a day on the water off the Cervantes coast is exciting, and knowing what to wear on a boat tour makes the difference between a relaxed outing and a chilly, sunburnt scramble. The Coral Coast delivers bright skies, salt spray, and shifting breezes, sometimes...
What Is a Sea-to-Plate Lobster Experience, and Where Can You Try One in WA?
A sea-to-plate lobster experience is exactly what it sounds like. You follow the journey of a Western Rock Lobster from the ocean where it is caught, through the way it is handled and prepared, all the way to the plate in front of you. Along the Coral Coast of Western...
Can Non-Swimmers Join a Sea Lion Tour in Cervantes?
If the idea of watching wild sea lions play in clear coastal water sounds wonderful, but you are not confident in the ocean, you are far from alone. Plenty of visitors ask the same thing before they book, and the good news is simple. A sea lion tour for non-swimmers...
Lobster Catching Tour vs Factory Tour: Which Cervantes Experience Should You Book?
Planning a trip up the Coral Coast and trying to decide between the two most popular seafood experiences in Cervantes? The choice usually comes down to a lobster catching tour vs factory tour, and both offer something genuinely different. One puts you out on the water...
Why Is Cervantes Known for Fresh Lobster?
If you have ever driven up the Indian Ocean coast north of Perth, chances are you have heard the name Cervantes mentioned in the same breath as fresh lobster. This small fishing town, nestled along the turquoise waters of the Coral Coast, has become synonymous with...
How Do You Choose the Best Lobster Dish?
Standing in front of a seafood menu with half a dozen lobster options can feel surprisingly overwhelming. Whether you are a first-time visitor to the Western Australian coast or a seasoned lobster lover looking to try something new, picking the right dish matters. The...








