Wednesday, July 29, 2015

1st Day! - 7/29/2015 - 8:45 P.M.

Today, i woke up at 7:30 A.M. I went down to the wharf and they were loading lobsters from the box's into a big truck. When you catch lobsters, you put them in a crate, and then put it in the water attached to a rope to hold it there and it looks something like this.

I saw as they used like a mini crane thing to pick up 2 crates of lobster at a time and then load them in the truck. We also had to fill the boat with bate for the bate bags for the lobster traps, so there was a ton of dead fish poured into crates and we took the crates of the bate and filled up the huge bucket in the lobster boat with it!

As you see in the picture above, there are 2 huge rectangular buckets on the lobster boat, one, the one without a cover, is the one that we put all of the bate into, and the second one, with a cover, is where we put the lobsters after they are banded, and it is filled with water so that they don't die. Today, i didn't have a lot of work to do. All i did was fill the bate bags for tomarrow when would get all of the traps. You are suppost to put 12-13 fish in each bate bag. The fish are not that big and the bate bag is about 9 inches by 4 inches. We worked for probably 1-1 1/2 hours and we probably filled 150 bate bags! After that, we left the lobster boat out and came back in to the wharf on the little row boat,because we have to leave the lobster boat out on the water, we cant park it next to the wharf.





-7/29/2015 - 9:06 - P.M.




Tuesday, July 28, 2015

DAY BEFORE - 7/28/2015: 10:19 P.M.

Today, i flew into Portland, Maine, by myself, and on the way, i got some McDonalds because i wanted some McNuggets. I got to Portland, Maine at about 3:30, and when i got there, my Aunt Pennie was there, waiting for me. We drove to where she lived, in Rockland, Maine. On the way, we stopped at Taco Bell, for dinner, so i got some pretty good food today! When i got to her house, my luggage that was sent 3 weeks earlier, was set out and my food was already set out. I brought my Xbox, and i set it up to her TV.
After i set up my Xbox, I checked out my room and got some cool pictures of it!






My room is on the second floor, and it is in its own private area because it has curtains. It also has like a separated desk area that is slightly raised above the rest of the floor in my room, and that is really cool! I set up all my clothes in the dresser and unpacked my suitcase and then set up all my electronic stuff and looked at my 2 YouTube channels and updated them. I downloaded some software onto my computer so i could record game play from my Xbox when i had free-time!
I got a pair of rubber boots and gloves for the lobster boat because it gets really wet and dirty on the boat. Aunt Pennie already had a pair of sise 9 boots for me, but they were a little to big for me, so she went and traded them out for sise 8. Tomarrow, i had to wake up at like 8 and then i would bait bags untill 10:30, and then, i would band lobsters for the rest of the day untill like 3:30 or 4. I am so excited for the new movie Mission Impossibe 5: Rogue Nation to come out, i cant wait to go see it! It comes out in 3 days and i want to go see it right when it comes out. My Aunt Pennie has a movie theater near her house, so i want to go see it there! 


-7/28/2015: 10:19 P.M.