I’ve never shared a bath with a lobster before. Ten minutes ago I was soaking in a galvanised tub overlooking Killiecrankie Bay, submerged to my chin to avoid the salty chill of the westerly wind. Back in the charming kitchen of the three-bedroom Crayshack, I’m assembling a sandwich when owner Mick Grimshaw drives up to the deck, reaches into his ute and throws a live southern rock lobster into my bathwater.
“The CSIRO did a study and the most humane way to kill ‘em is by drowning them in fresh water,” he says. I decide not to ask if that changes with the addition of bath salts.
Killiecrankie is on the north-west coast of Flinders Island, the largest island of the Furneaux Group in the Bass Strait north of Tasmania. It’s
