Maritime Provinces, Canada

Touring PEI - September 25

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New Glasgow

boardwalk with flowers
more flowers

Rustico

Our tour this day was guided by a "step-on". This is an individual who steps onto a tour bus to describe the local environment.

Our step-on gave a lecture on the anatomy of the lobster. She used a plastic, presumably anatomically correct, model to describe such important things as how to determine the gender of a lobster. You may ask, "Who cares, other than the lobsters?" Female lobsters sometimes have roe (eggs) which many people like to eat.

The funny looking cages to her (the step-on's) right are lobster traps. Each trap is divided into three sections. The center section is a baited area, called the "kitchen". The two side sections are called the "living rooms". These two side sections are spaces that lobsters go when another lobster enters the trap.

Lobster lecture Step-on with lobster traps and a model of a lobster.
old salt The step-on introducted us to an "old salt", a retired lobster fisher.
lighthouse Not surprisingly, the Maritimes have quite a few lighthouses.