Rainy Day (lobsters dropped off)

Today, I got up, and i had a boal of cereal for breakfast. It was cinnamon, and it was really good! I packed some peanut-butter crackers and a water bottle into my plastic bag for a snack on the boat. We went out at about 5:15 A.M. from the boat, to go to the wharf. It was not foggy like usual. When we got onto the boat, it started to rain a little bit, and so we had to put on our raincoats. From then and on, the rain went on and off, and it wasn't cool, because i had to keep my head looking down, or else i would get a ton of rain in my face.

Soon, the rain went a way for a while, and i got to take my rain jacket off. We only hauled single traps today, but sometimes, if the traps were close together, Uncle Art would give a trap to me for me to do, so that he could get the other trap for him to do. The lobsters were dropping off today, and at the end of the day, we didn't even fill the box all the way to the top. It started to rain again soon, and i put my rain jacket back on.


We got done at about 1 P.M. and my Grandma, Dad, and brother Levi, were going to take a short trip with me and Uncle Art on the boat so they could see what it was actually like to haul a trap. We left 5 traps for that trip so that they could see us haul the 5 traps. Levi wanted to band the lobsters, but he wanted someone else to hold them while he put the rubber band on them. Uncle Art has a gate around his propeller so he does not get rope tangled and it looks like this.

This cage keeps the trap ropes out of the propeller so that they don't get tangled in it.

We got back to the wharf at 1, and we unloaded our lobsters, and we had about 500 pounds. We usually get more than that, but today, they dropped off. Uncle Art left me in charge of the boat at the wharf, while he went over to the Lobstah Shack nextdoor, to get some cheeseburgers for me and him for lunch. By the time he got back, Grandma, My brother Levi, and my Dad, were ready, and were getting on the boat. We all got onto the boat, to go for a mini haul session.

On the way out, i had my cheeseburger with some potato chips, and we talked about the boat, and what happens when we haul a trap. We showed them the bait box and where the lobsters go. We were going to haul 5 traps where it was very rocky, and usually that is where the big lobsters are. We hauled the traps, and we got about 8 good sized lobsters from each trap. Those traps did great! Levi got to band some lobsters.

On one of those traps, there were some sea-urchins in there. They were green, and they are really sharp, and my Dad, and Grandma got to check them out. We also, got about 40 conch shells from just that trap alone. It was so crazy, i got all of them out of the trap, and put them on the side of the boat to take a picture, then i threw them all back into the ocean.

When we got back to the wharf, we put the boat back, and then a fish, just jumped out of the water, onto the floating wooden raft. It was so crazy, because no one had ever seen that before. Then everyone got off, and i went back to my moms house with my dad, Grandma, and Levi.

-August 22, Saturday