Well, it's a baby oyseter! An oyster may spawn as either a male or a femail, depending upon the salt content and temperature of the water. Eggs, which look like a milky cloud, are normally released on an ebbint tide. An oyster sheds and average of one million eggs, on which small fish feed. The fertilized eggs float 7-18 days before settling, if they are not eaten by a predator first. Inspite of its miniscule size, each larva has a tiny shell complete with muscle and a foot. Once its swimming stage is over, the larva extends its foot, settles on any solid object it can find, and cements intself into place. At this stage it is knon as an oyster spat. Once they are anchored into place, oyster spat grow their shells.

So the oyster will be honored in October.
The family festival, which is open to the public, will heighlight the county's proud seafood induxtry and beautiful beaches. The Oyster Spat Festival is is a great reason to come and enjoy St. George Island at a beautiful time of year that many visitors dont get to see. St. George Island, in the Panhandle of Florida, is exeptionally beautiful and unique in that it is a coatal resort area without high desity condos, wall-to-wall people or traffic jams. You arrive at St. George Island via the third longest bridge in Floida.