Lowcountry Oyster Festival
Who’s ready to do some oyster shucking? Some 80,000 pounds of oysters await at the 30th annual Lowcountry Oyster Festival, to be held from 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. January 27, 2013, at Boone Hall Plantation, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina (map).
The Lowcountry Oyster Festival claims to be the world’s largest oyster festival and has been named one of the “top 20 events in the southeast” by Southeastern Tourism Society.
Highlights include the legendary “Oyster Shucking” and “Oyster Eating” Contests, live music on the main stage, wine, a selection of domestic and imported beers, a Children’s Area complete with pony rides and jump castles and a “Food Court” showcasing a variety of local restaurants.
The fest benefits the Ronald McDonald House, Hospitality Heroes, Hollings Cancer Center, Shriners Hospitals for Children and Charleston County Schools Science Materials Resource Center.
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(Photo courtesy of Lowcountry Oyster Festival)