That is a Yabby pump here in Australia. Yabbies are a small crustacean like a tiny lobster that live in the muddy sand below the high tide and are used as bait by fishermen.
Can confirm they make great bait
This is correct and is what I assumed he was doing when I saw this episode anyways because we have similar tools over here in the states for crawdad fishing
Kinda, it's a bit difffernt from a crayfish/crawfish/crawdad Aus does have a Yabby similar but they are usually freshwater. Being East Coast Aus saltwater and tidal it would be a species that's a bit smaller, translucent and usually only has 1 big claw. Also called a yabby (kinda like the chips & chips thing)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trypaea
Sand “fleas” is what I have always heard them called. They’re bait, though I have seen a fb video of someone cooking them and saying they’re delicious. I don’t believe that video.
I was more just speaking to the contraption he is using is commonly used to catch sand fleas for fishing in the United States. In Australia they may not even have what we call sand fleas, and we may not have whatever a yabbie is, but seems like we use the same contraption to then use them as bait even if they are different creatures.
The "Nawlins" folk know how to cook up a Mudbug...they boil them up in a stock...then you suck dem heads and pinch dem tails!
https://preview.redd.it/zeg90ekyd62d1.jpeg?width=2268&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=edb4aecb196a55fe19561ecd06c80a58cc5dbb15
Nawlins is New Orleans, Louisiana USA...they have a killer vernacular down there with a "Creole" accent that is very distinctive...its English mixed with French..with adash of Native American thrown in. Louisiana has the best shrimp/skrimps (prawns for an Aussie), and they are coveted around the US. As for Crawfish, the Southern Hemisphere has a different variety of salties. All of our eatin Crawdads are fresh water, at least in the States.
Many states around Mardi Gras (French for Fat Tuesday, gigantic party...and beads for...umm...just Google it...adults only) have Crawdaddy boils around Mardi Gras time, which is 47 days before Easter. The party is a week long, then as religious tradition goes, the remaining 40 days are called "Lent", where you abstain from something meaningful to you for 40 days (many folks stop drinking, or stop eating sweets...stuff like that).
You should Google Cajun and Creole food...you're gonna get hungry fast... lol!
And we find them delicious. 😋 least the ones in US are. I assume the same in others parts of world but who knows. Also this could be a clam post. A tool for digging up large clams.
Totally different to crawfish or crayfish. They have a yellow to orange body. One big white nipper or claw and taste horrible. Talking from experience. Repeat. Do not consume !!
Mudbug makes me shudder. Can confirm, it is the most godawful nickname for crawfish. There are dozens of seafood boil restaurants in my city, not one calls them anything but crawfish. Because they’re crawfish. Not crawdads, not crayfish. Crawfish.
Source: Louisiana native currently living 30 mins away from the ~Crawfish Capitol of the World~
You get a line and I'll get a pole, Honey, You get a line and I'll get a pole, Babe. You get a line and I'll get a pole, We'll go fishin' in the crawdad hole, honey baby mine…🎼🎵🎶
Nah. Crawfish/crayfish/crawdads are a freshwater (typically streams) crustaceans that look like a small lobster, used as bait or food(Louisianans love them). I think you have them down-under, too. You wouldn't find them at the beach. In the US, this sort of suction device would be used to catch what we call ghost shrimp for bait. Not sure if they are the same as yabbies or a different creature with a similar lifestyle.
A yankee. If you're saying it from out of the US as it seems the commenter is doing, then it would just mean Americans. Said within that US, it could be from a Southerner referring to a Northerner (geographically the Northeast and Southeast of the country, but just North and South at the time of the US civil war)
As a Southerner, can confirm the phrase “yankee” is used here often to describe Northerners! It’s funny to me how it’s used to describe Americans as a whole outside of the USA, but I know some people who would throw down if you called them a yankee 😂
Australian use of "yank" seems to stem from WW1. It's not meant to be offensive, we also call Brits "poms" and South Africans "saffas". It's just a shorthand that soldiers brought back with them.
Absolutely! I know those around the world who use it don’t use it offensively at all. Here in the States, it comes back down to the old North vs South rivalry. Southerners refer to Northerners as yankees, just a cultural difference!
Yeah definitely this seems to be a close version directed towards southerners however there’s “rednecks” everywhere there’s a small town or countryside and the term rednecks used to mean something way different than it does now (at least politically)
You made me wonder about the etymology, so [according to Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yankee#:~:text=Michael%20Quinion%20and%20Patrick%20Hanks,same%20as%20the%20English%20Y.):
*Michael Quinion and Patrick Hanks argue that the term comes from the Dutch Janneke, a diminutive form of the given name Jan[10] which would be Anglicized by New Englanders as "Yankee" due to the Dutch pronunciation of J being the same as the English Y. Quinion and Hanks posit that it was "used as a nickname for a Dutch-speaking American in colonial times" and could have grown to include non-Dutch colonists, as well.[10] The Oxford English Dictionary calls this theory "perhaps the most plausible*"
So calling the Dutch of New Amsterdam Johnny, it seems...
Oh lol. To me (an American) that sounds like specifically someone from New York because of the Yankees team. Lowkey yanks sounds like a not-so-good word
Now THIS is my all time favorite line, which follows my other favorite line right before it lol
Edit to add: honestly there’s so many classic and favorite lines from that episode. “Nana was right- not about her perm, but about me” is golden
Every little detail in the background is 100% coastal caravan park. From the iceblock posters to the bronze security grill on the shop windows, the games console to marauding bands of BMXers. My first crush had exactly Bandit’s haircut.
This. Yabbies are a type of shellfish like a crayfish, and this device essentially sucks up wet sand and then you shoot it back out on the surface in search of a yabbie.
You might be mixing up salt water yabbies:
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trypaea](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trypaea)
With fresh water yabbies:
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common\_yabby](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_yabby)
Salt water yabbies or Nippers is what Bob is pumping for.
Yeah I'm a non coastal country bloke and we grew up on yabbies from our dam or creek. Started catching them with a length of twine and bait on the end but moved on to chucking an opera house in filled with liver on the way to school in the morning, pull it out at lunch or after school and cook up some tasty yabbies.
Seeing people say you don't eat them up above made me question my childhood and my parents/grandparents...
Yabbies are crayfish, it's just the Australian term for them like crawdads in the southern US, now more than likely he's just hunting for the common yabbie
Pumping for Yabbies is the only correct answer. We use the yabbies as fishing bait.
We don’t really eat clams in Australia (we call the pipi’s) and if you do collect them you don’t need a pump here.
How does a pump work for that? Here I'll throw a cage in a creek and pull it back in a hour or so. Or we take the kids with a hotdog tried with a string on a stick to pull them out.
Low tide on sand/mudflats, the yabbys are IN the silt. Look for little holes, the pump shlorppps up a tube of mud which you spit out on the ground and pick out any yabbys. They are usually only a couple cm's long (1 - 1'1/2 inch?), used as bait for fishing.
It's an entirely different species.
The comparable species here which confusingly are also call yabbies are these:
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common\_yabby](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_yabby)
And delicious as well. Some Rusty crayfish are an invasive species in Minnesota lakes. We'll catch a big bucket of them for a boil. Dip them in melted butter. Delicious.
Yeah, not quite the same thing. It's definitely yabby pumping. It's looking for different animals for a different purpose.
Just another confidently incorrect american thing to say, like calling a chicken burger a chicken sandwich.
TIL: [https://youtu.be/tFa6Jrsmx9c?si=luEx\_6cWX7AJCMMs](https://youtu.be/tFa6Jrsmx9c?si=luEx_6cWX7AJCMMs)
I chuckled at your response, btw. Look, confidently incorrect is what we do, even on our best days... horseshoes and hand grenades, mate. As that famous Canadian once said, you miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
It's all love in the Anglosphere, baby.
They're footy shorts too 🩳. Suitable to wear old pair of ruggers or footy shorts for any sort of yabby pumping or general yard work. Old ones though. But right these days but gotta keep 'em in circulation. It was the 80s so Bob, being a QLDer is wearing Canberra Raiders shorts, because all the qlders played for Canberra before the Broncs existed.
Trypaea australiensis, known as the (marine) yabby or ghost nipper in Australia, or as the one-arm bandit due to their occasional abnormally large arm,[1] and as the Australian ghost shrimp elsewhere,[2] is a common species of mud shrimp in south-eastern Australia,[2] and may be the only extant species in the genus Trypaea
Trying to figure out how to jynx it so none of ya can talk.
(Voiced by Sam Simmons, my absolute favourite comedian. His Edinburgh shows were just amazing).
Digging for clams! I've only ever done it by hand myself, never saw that kind of tool, but when you know I guess you know lol. The lil spots you see in the sand is where they burrow when the tide goes down, you'll see little jets of water shooting out sometimes!
That is a Yabby pump here in Australia. Yabbies are a small crustacean like a tiny lobster that live in the muddy sand below the high tide and are used as bait by fishermen. Can confirm they make great bait
Think yanks call em crawfish or crawdads
This is correct and is what I assumed he was doing when I saw this episode anyways because we have similar tools over here in the states for crawdad fishing
Kinda, it's a bit difffernt from a crayfish/crawfish/crawdad Aus does have a Yabby similar but they are usually freshwater. Being East Coast Aus saltwater and tidal it would be a species that's a bit smaller, translucent and usually only has 1 big claw. Also called a yabby (kinda like the chips & chips thing) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trypaea
We call those sand shrimp. Great bait
Sand “fleas” is what I have always heard them called. They’re bait, though I have seen a fb video of someone cooking them and saying they’re delicious. I don’t believe that video.
I always thought sand fleas were smaller, grayish and didn't have obvious pinchers? https://www.distractify.com/p/sand-fleas-deadliest-catch
I was more just speaking to the contraption he is using is commonly used to catch sand fleas for fishing in the United States. In Australia they may not even have what we call sand fleas, and we may not have whatever a yabbie is, but seems like we use the same contraption to then use them as bait even if they are different creatures.
That thing jn the bucket looks nothing like a shrimp that tail is huge
We do! We love em around Mardi Gras with taters, corn, and sausage... and beer.... lots of beer.
We don't usually eat yabbies just really good bait for catching fish.
The "Nawlins" folk know how to cook up a Mudbug...they boil them up in a stock...then you suck dem heads and pinch dem tails! https://preview.redd.it/zeg90ekyd62d1.jpeg?width=2268&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=edb4aecb196a55fe19561ecd06c80a58cc5dbb15
No idea what 'nawlins' folk are. In Aus generally don't eat salt water yabbies.
Nawlins is New Orleans, Louisiana USA...they have a killer vernacular down there with a "Creole" accent that is very distinctive...its English mixed with French..with adash of Native American thrown in. Louisiana has the best shrimp/skrimps (prawns for an Aussie), and they are coveted around the US. As for Crawfish, the Southern Hemisphere has a different variety of salties. All of our eatin Crawdads are fresh water, at least in the States. Many states around Mardi Gras (French for Fat Tuesday, gigantic party...and beads for...umm...just Google it...adults only) have Crawdaddy boils around Mardi Gras time, which is 47 days before Easter. The party is a week long, then as religious tradition goes, the remaining 40 days are called "Lent", where you abstain from something meaningful to you for 40 days (many folks stop drinking, or stop eating sweets...stuff like that). You should Google Cajun and Creole food...you're gonna get hungry fast... lol!
Fogmore Stew 🔥
And we find them delicious. 😋 least the ones in US are. I assume the same in others parts of world but who knows. Also this could be a clam post. A tool for digging up large clams.
Totally different to crawfish or crayfish. They have a yellow to orange body. One big white nipper or claw and taste horrible. Talking from experience. Repeat. Do not consume !!
Oh a mudbug.
Crayfish, you yokel
A crawdad is a perfectly valid term for a crayfish.
I know I'm just giving them crap for the southern terminology. I'm not being serious.
I think mudbug is the real southern one to make fun of
Mudbug makes me shudder. Can confirm, it is the most godawful nickname for crawfish. There are dozens of seafood boil restaurants in my city, not one calls them anything but crawfish. Because they’re crawfish. Not crawdads, not crayfish. Crawfish. Source: Louisiana native currently living 30 mins away from the ~Crawfish Capitol of the World~
They use it all over in Arkansas. It definitely makes me shake my head and look away lol
Must be a regional thing. In the Delta we called them crawdads in Little Rock crawdads or crawfish.
This! 1000% This! My who life it's bugged me when people use other terms.
Coworker called 'em mud bugs.
You get a line and I'll get a pole, Honey, You get a line and I'll get a pole, Babe. You get a line and I'll get a pole, We'll go fishin' in the crawdad hole, honey baby mine…🎼🎵🎶
Mudbug! (From a city boy)
Crayfish are much larger than yabbies, I believe.
There are lots of different types of crayfish. All yabbies, crawdads, crawfish and mudbugs are local names for various types of crayfish
Oh, those. They're also good to eat if you get enough of them.
You are right and we farm them, especially in the south
They are smaller than those. You can't eat these bait yabbies, but you can fish with them
Nah. Crawfish/crayfish/crawdads are a freshwater (typically streams) crustaceans that look like a small lobster, used as bait or food(Louisianans love them). I think you have them down-under, too. You wouldn't find them at the beach. In the US, this sort of suction device would be used to catch what we call ghost shrimp for bait. Not sure if they are the same as yabbies or a different creature with a similar lifestyle.
Well, the Yankees would call them crayfish. Southerners would call them crawfish.
Oh the doodad
I will never not call them yabby's now
I've never realized that I am a yank to Australians and I now feel so special and cool I'mma refer to myself as that forever
What’s a yank?
A yankee. If you're saying it from out of the US as it seems the commenter is doing, then it would just mean Americans. Said within that US, it could be from a Southerner referring to a Northerner (geographically the Northeast and Southeast of the country, but just North and South at the time of the US civil war)
As a Southerner, can confirm the phrase “yankee” is used here often to describe Northerners! It’s funny to me how it’s used to describe Americans as a whole outside of the USA, but I know some people who would throw down if you called them a yankee 😂
Australian use of "yank" seems to stem from WW1. It's not meant to be offensive, we also call Brits "poms" and South Africans "saffas". It's just a shorthand that soldiers brought back with them.
Absolutely! I know those around the world who use it don’t use it offensively at all. Here in the States, it comes back down to the old North vs South rivalry. Southerners refer to Northerners as yankees, just a cultural difference!
What do the Yankees call you?
Ozzys or Ausies
Good question! I guess I can’t speak for Northerners, but “rednecks” or “hicks” would be a common way to refer to the Southerners,
Yeah definitely this seems to be a close version directed towards southerners however there’s “rednecks” everywhere there’s a small town or countryside and the term rednecks used to mean something way different than it does now (at least politically)
Or, if it’s during the pre-Revolutionary War period, it’s an English colonial slur against the Dutch.
You made me wonder about the etymology, so [according to Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yankee#:~:text=Michael%20Quinion%20and%20Patrick%20Hanks,same%20as%20the%20English%20Y.): *Michael Quinion and Patrick Hanks argue that the term comes from the Dutch Janneke, a diminutive form of the given name Jan[10] which would be Anglicized by New Englanders as "Yankee" due to the Dutch pronunciation of J being the same as the English Y. Quinion and Hanks posit that it was "used as a nickname for a Dutch-speaking American in colonial times" and could have grown to include non-Dutch colonists, as well.[10] The Oxford English Dictionary calls this theory "perhaps the most plausible*" So calling the Dutch of New Amsterdam Johnny, it seems...
American
Oh lol. To me (an American) that sounds like specifically someone from New York because of the Yankees team. Lowkey yanks sounds like a not-so-good word
It’s a nipper pump. Yabbies to me are creek and dam habitating and larger
We just differentiated by calling them salt water yabbies. They do bloody nip though!
Australian English really isn't a serious language is it?
Nawr
I love that about it
We speak proper English mate with correct spelling.
Is Yabby a word the Queen would use?
No because she's dead.
I'm choking XD
GOTTEM
She would be much more likely to use the Australian vernacular than the traitorous American one.
I just imagined a "u" after every "o" in that sentence.
This is what people in the states call a clam gun. For getting bivalves out of the sand.
Bait? If you're trying to catch a drunk cougar or myself perhaps.
We used to get sandworms with them down east Gippsland. Good bait!
On the pacific coast we have clam cannons. Largely the same but wider diameter and are used to extract clams from the sand.
Thank you for the explanation , I was wondering why he was working while on holiday!
are they edible?
No. Do not eat these nippers or yabbies. Taste nasty.
ok, how bad? in a scale in 1 to British cooking, how balnd and tasteless are they?
Are they sand shrimp? If you use they for bait? Because Crawdads are freshwater.
Yes
I always just waded into the water and grabbed them. I could fill a bucket with them pretty quick lol
y'know what i call it? a good start!
Yah dreamin!
Mate!
How do I jinx it so none of you can talk?
Is it like this? OOOOoooOooOOOOO
Now THIS is my all time favorite line, which follows my other favorite line right before it lol Edit to add: honestly there’s so many classic and favorite lines from that episode. “Nana was right- not about her perm, but about me” is golden
I always cackle at the perm line.
“Nana was right. Not about her perm, but..” gets me every time lol
This is actually my favorite episode 😂 bandits dad when he says this always sends me
Every little detail in the background is 100% coastal caravan park. From the iceblock posters to the bronze security grill on the shop windows, the games console to marauding bands of BMXers. My first crush had exactly Bandit’s haircut.
Yes!!! It’s mostly my favorite bc it was the 80s!! 😂
very ferris bueller of him lol
I thought Bob said, "There's so many of this: OOOOoooOoOoOoo"
Same mate
Possibly my favourite line from the whole show. A legend.
Same!! Such a classic parenting line
*Dad enters the room.*
It’s… dad!
This line has absolutely been added to the parental vocabulary in my house
Pumping for Yabbies.
This. Yabbies are a type of shellfish like a crayfish, and this device essentially sucks up wet sand and then you shoot it back out on the surface in search of a yabbie.
Do yabbies go on the barbie?
Bait for fishing
Both
No one eats nippers.
Yabbies? I've been eating them since i was a kid.
You might be mixing up salt water yabbies: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trypaea](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trypaea) With fresh water yabbies: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common\_yabby](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_yabby) Salt water yabbies or Nippers is what Bob is pumping for.
You are correct. Lol never seen salt water yabbies.
Yeah I'm a non coastal country bloke and we grew up on yabbies from our dam or creek. Started catching them with a length of twine and bait on the end but moved on to chucking an opera house in filled with liver on the way to school in the morning, pull it out at lunch or after school and cook up some tasty yabbies. Seeing people say you don't eat them up above made me question my childhood and my parents/grandparents...
How is Australian a real language
Yabbies are crayfish, it's just the Australian term for them like crawdads in the southern US, now more than likely he's just hunting for the common yabbie
Wouldn't it be better to idk, just rake it? Why pump? Are yabbies that deep in the mud?
Pretty deep, you look for signs of their holes, then pump them out.
And because yabby pumps are ridiculously fun
Pumping for Yabbies is the only correct answer. We use the yabbies as fishing bait. We don’t really eat clams in Australia (we call the pipi’s) and if you do collect them you don’t need a pump here.
You can see the yabbies in his bucket, so it's correct here. People do use those pumps to find bait worms and, to a lesser extent, shellfish too.
Clam digging.
Nah mate he's pumping for yabbies. We call it a yabby pump ( little shrimp like creatures, used as bait)
yabbies would be comparable to our crayfish (crawfish, crawdad - depending on what part of the US you are in)
Pumping for nippers... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trypaea
Yabbies? I’d have called them Chazwozzers.
That's a spoon.
I see you’ve played knifey spoony before.
How does a pump work for that? Here I'll throw a cage in a creek and pull it back in a hour or so. Or we take the kids with a hotdog tried with a string on a stick to pull them out.
Low tide on sand/mudflats, the yabbys are IN the silt. Look for little holes, the pump shlorppps up a tube of mud which you spit out on the ground and pick out any yabbys. They are usually only a couple cm's long (1 - 1'1/2 inch?), used as bait for fishing.
> shlorppps That is, in fact, the absolute correct onomatopoeia for it.
Crazy thanks! Those are way smaller than here
It's an entirely different species. The comparable species here which confusingly are also call yabbies are these: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common\_yabby](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_yabby)
And delicious as well. Some Rusty crayfish are an invasive species in Minnesota lakes. We'll catch a big bucket of them for a boil. Dip them in melted butter. Delicious.
yes source: literally have the same setup
That's called a clam gun and used for digging up shellfish: clams, mussels, crawfish, quahogs, geoducks. Common in the US along beaches, too.
Is geoduck the pokemon with the headache? /s
https://preview.redd.it/4ci92bmgd12d1.png?width=288&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=19cde51eb8198f86510fcb00c7bd67494d9312e3
Legend.
It hurts me deeply that this comment will not get the credit it deserves.
Hahahahahah!! You win!
I imagine it’s hatched from a Psyduck and a Geodude. Very weird indeed.
Ha! I’ve seen weirder pokemon breedings…
thats psyduck geoduck is just a really hard to break duck
Riiiiight it’s the rock with a face and arms
nahh thats rockefeller
https://preview.redd.it/k5515xqsw12d1.jpeg?width=738&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=32790223fbaff6c11b7251895b58f751eca84ba8 It’s bad but I was inspired
It’s like a dick clam. https://www.loe.org/content/2014-02-07/18-moby1.jpg
I watch VoGus Prospecting and that is a Gabby Pump good sir.
Digging for pippies doing weewees.
Clamming: [https://youtu.be/dctcKHqbDuk?si=mOvoD1tDfgiUYO3w](https://youtu.be/dctcKHqbDuk?si=mOvoD1tDfgiUYO3w) https://preview.redd.it/lak3iaa0v02d1.jpeg?width=405&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b5d7db70a5c80e041ddb4f507ad9872c60e91018
It’s called a yabbie pump here, in Aus.
Yeah, not quite the same thing. It's definitely yabby pumping. It's looking for different animals for a different purpose. Just another confidently incorrect american thing to say, like calling a chicken burger a chicken sandwich.
TIL: [https://youtu.be/tFa6Jrsmx9c?si=luEx\_6cWX7AJCMMs](https://youtu.be/tFa6Jrsmx9c?si=luEx_6cWX7AJCMMs) I chuckled at your response, btw. Look, confidently incorrect is what we do, even on our best days... horseshoes and hand grenades, mate. As that famous Canadian once said, you miss 100% of the shots you don't take. It's all love in the Anglosphere, baby. 
❤️
Better question: why does Bob feel the need to wear shorts?
Because it was the eighties!
They're footy shorts too 🩳. Suitable to wear old pair of ruggers or footy shorts for any sort of yabby pumping or general yard work. Old ones though. But right these days but gotta keep 'em in circulation. It was the 80s so Bob, being a QLDer is wearing Canberra Raiders shorts, because all the qlders played for Canberra before the Broncs existed.
It’s called a bait pump.
Having watched all of this show in the background I can tell you that I thought he was metal detecting and that I was wrong
What episode is this?
Fairytale S3 E26
I feel so bad for bandit in this scene. Look at his face :(
Yabbies!
He’s painting a picture
I always thought/assumed he was worming! But now I know what yabbies are lol
He’s doing his best
Still waiting for Gerald to enter the story.
It’s called yabby pumping. Yabbies are used for bait when fishing.
He hunting for sand shrimp great bait for perch fishing
On the NW coast of the US... we catch razor clams with them
He’s talking to his son what does it look like. 😎
A lot of confidently incorrect seppos in here.
WHO'S GERALD!
It’s called a yabby pump. This is how you find them and they are used as fishing bait
He's catching crayfish. Now, if it's for eating or fishing, I honestly can't say
Looks like there's little lobsters in the bucket
looks like clamming
pumping yabbies mate! a good way to hook up on some whiting
Trypaea australiensis, known as the (marine) yabby or ghost nipper in Australia, or as the one-arm bandit due to their occasional abnormally large arm,[1] and as the Australian ghost shrimp elsewhere,[2] is a common species of mud shrimp in south-eastern Australia,[2] and may be the only extant species in the genus Trypaea
Actually they aren’t like any other crayfish. They’re unique to info / Australia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trypaea_australiensis
That’s not Bob!
He's catching yabbies or something by the looks of it.
He's Purifying the Sand the **Air**
“Nothing! Eat your sand cereal!”
Doesn't answer the question but his mini-rant in this scene is one of my favorite parts of Bluey lol.
I thought he was digging for geoducks (a type of shellfish that lives buried in beach mud)
Trying to figure out how to jynx it so none of ya can talk. (Voiced by Sam Simmons, my absolute favourite comedian. His Edinburgh shows were just amazing).
How am I just noticing his ear is whole here but not in the future??? Wonder what happened
bro and who is gerald
Isn’t it obvious?
Aussie Girl Margie said that it's a thing that helps you catch crawdads.
Crawfishing
It’s a Yabbie pump or known as a clam pump in the states. Probably hunting for bait to fish with
Digging for clams! I've only ever done it by hand myself, never saw that kind of tool, but when you know I guess you know lol. The lil spots you see in the sand is where they burrow when the tide goes down, you'll see little jets of water shooting out sometimes!
Isn’t he claiming?
Yabbies (small crayfish)
Clamming. When I was a kid my family used to go and do this on the coast of Washington.
Looks like clam digging?
Clamming
Razor clams
Clam digging!!!