We took a lobster excursion, today. Super fun. Small group of passengers got the experience of lobster fishing.
The captain pulled up the traps. 
Bags are stuffed with bait.
We emptied the traps (along with lots of crabs that got tossed back in and often snagged by patient seagulls). 
We learned how to measure from the eye socket down the back. 3 and a quarter inch we kept, over 5 inches goes back in the ocean.
Only about 50% of females produce eggs. And they store male sperm until they want to use it. Interesting….
This lobster was a female and previously caught with eggs present. The fisherman notches the second fin and that indicates a producing female and she gets tossed back in the ocean.
We took our catch to a local restaurant to be steamed for dinner.
We visited the Portland Head lighthouse and wondered around the Old Port Historic District with original cobblestones.
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