EXPENSIVE SPANISH DELICACY WASHED UP ON THE BEACH

A buoy carrying an expensive rare Spanish delicacy has washed up on Cefn Sidan.

Thousands of Gooseneck Barnacles were found attached to the 16 foot steel shipping ball that came ashore earlier this week.

In Spain, diners can shell out hundreds of pounds of cash for a plateful of the delicacy, also known as Percebes.

The 22 foot long warning device was brought in with the high tide after coming detached from its anchor at sea.

Although it is not known where the stranded buoy originated, it may have travelled thousands of miles across the waters before reaching Carmarthenshire’s coast.

The council’s countryside and parks manager, Rory Dickinson said: “It is said that goose barnacles taste intensely of the sea and are known as the fortune on the rocks in Spain’s ‘cliffs of death’. Unfortunately we didn’t get the chance to check this out as they were already dead by the time they reached us.”

Spanish fishermen risk their lives searching the jagged cliffs of the country’s Galicia port to bring back plates of Barnacles to feed the rich.

The goose barnacle is claimed to be one of the most beautiful foods on the planet. Writing about the barnacles The Guardian said ‘a bright enamelled head with its ruby lips sits atop a snakeskin sleeve which pulls away to reveal a glossy, lucent finger of flesh, marbled and grey at the neck, bright orange at the tip. They’re the punks of the crustacean family. They thrive in violent waters, in their leathery jackets and studded collars, their heads a shock of colour’.