Friday, August 1, 2014

Day 20 - Travel Day - Lunnenberg, NS



 

After an evening of feasting on lobster, our next day was a short travel day; so there was time to visit Nautical Seafood, a lobster processing plant. The owner of the business provided us a tour of his plant, as well as an opportunity to buy some lobsters to fill our larder.





 



Some of the fishing fleet could be seen at low tide resting on the sea bed.








 The lobster pound is the processing and wholesale business that brings the lobster caught by the fisherman to the market and dinner table. 







The plant had an inventory of 170,000 pounds of live lobsters. The lobsters are sorted by weight on a specially designed conveyor belt. After sorting into the separate weight classes, the lobsters are ready to be packed and shipped all over Canada and the US.




 



At the end of the conveyor belt, the four to six pound beauties were piled four to five deep.







 


Most of the two and three pound lobsters are 10 to 12 years of age. These youngsters look pretty puny when compare to grand-pa who was estimated to be close to eighty years of age..








Linda looks like she has a new dance partner.








Our trip to Lunenburg took us through the interior of Nova Scotia and over some sparsely populated and challenging, rough and narrow country roads.

 

We arrived in Lunenburg to a very nice town campground. Following the social hour and travel briefing we all participated in a white “elephant gift” exchange.


A “white elephant gift” is something you have been carrying all over the country, not knowing what to do with it and can easily be shuffled off to someone else who can carry it all over the country. The gift exchange was great fun all to the tune of Spence’s right, left and do-se doh!





Submitted by:
 #11 David & Greta Storrs