Day 11.271: More from Pemaquid Point

Here are a few more pictures from the area around the lighthouse. We enjoyed a visit to the Fishermen's Museum where we saw the huge lobster. We have all learned a lot about lobster fishing in the last five years. One of our first lessons was referring to the item used to catch lobsters as a lobster pot (as we had learned in the UK) only to be corrected by one of the kids fresh from learning about such things in school in Maine that a lobster pot is what you cook them in, the trap is called (reasonably enough) a lobster trap. They also learned that if you see one on the shore you leave it alone because it belongs to the lobstermen. For the first time since then, in this small museum were a couple of old exhibits with parts of old lobster traps labelled, "lobster pots" - there's a story to be unearthed perhaps.

Also pictured, another big wave and a monarch butterfly fueling for its long flight to South America - I still find that completely astonishing.