A Welcome Rest
Trip Start
Jul 23, 2011
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Trip End
Jul 29, 2011
Where I stayed
What I did
No biking; just touring Little Cranberry Island
Little Cranberry Island (Islesford), International
Thursday, July 28, 2011
"Because of its proximity to sailing routes, the western side of the island was settled first. Later arrivals gravitated to the island's eastern half where the soil proved better for farming." Bar Harbor was incorporated as a town in 1796.
I am sorry I did not take a snapshot of the lobsterman (feminine) and her mate who briefed us on the lobster industry. One of my primary objectives of this trip was to get to know lobsters more intimately, which I did, cradle-to-grave, so to speak. I started relating to them the way Ahab did to "the Whale". But I learned a lot from this lady on the lobster's life-cycle and economics. (One interesting fact worth passing along is that the lobster-men get less than $5 per pound; so do the math next time you're in the market or restaurant. Even in Bar Harbor, my lobster roll was over $20, but I understand most of the recent increase in sea- (as well as other) food prices is the result of fuel price increases.) This part of Maine has lots of other excellent seafood, too. Geographically, the Gulf of Maine is an incredible resource whose fate has been threatened by overfishing; the future is still uncertain, but locally, the harvest is still available.
As a related attraction, their blueberries, excellent in the right chef's hands when very fresh, are still not as good as those from Jersey... or Michigan I heard.)
