Conch Farm

Today we also toured the Conch Farm. This was something that we have been wanting to do for awhile and just never got around to it. So today we did that also. This was interesting to us because Conch is a food that is native to here. And we have mentioned and showed pictures of Conch on here before. The tour guide told us how they hatch the conch from eggs and raise them to about four years old before selling them. He showed us the different sizes of shells as they grow, etc. the Conch farm sells around 1.5 million a year. That is a lot of conch, and he said that most of them go to Miami. Wow!


Here are some of the tanks where the conch are kept from different stages. The wire ones out in the ocean hold around 5,000 conch each. The tanks up close are the ones that hold the 1 year old conch. They were small, I know you can't see them, but they are in there.






Here are Tim and the kids. Tim and Tyler are looking at some of the boats out in the water and the younger kids are looking into a tank that has different kinds of fish.

This is Sally (the conch). We were told that she is a trained conch. She is use to being handled and so comes out of the shell. It was neat to see how big it is, and to see it come out of its shell. The ones we catch in the ocean will hide in the shells and not come out.

This is our tour guide showing us Sally.