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
