May 27, 2010. Western Head, N.S. Eating Lobster.

Tonight we will eat lobster, pulled from the Atlantic Ocean this morning. Vinal is helping a friend pull his lobster traps, as May 31st is the last day of the season for our local fishermen. The rules require all traps out of the water by midnight, so his friend wants to take thirty each day. Six boats were working in our bay today, but no one was pulling their pots, but were busily harvesting the lobsters.

Eating lobster that was just pulled from the sea that morning taste a whole lot better than getting the lobster from the lobster pound. It is like eating corn just pulled from the field. The taste is similar but much better. Ken will boil the water outside on a very hot stove specific for that task and cook the lobster. Then we eat just lobster and brown bread for dinner, in the kitchen, dipping the lobster meat in butter. Ken never eats butter, except with lobster. Tonight we dine like royalty with our lobster of two and a half pounds each. Nothing better.