Lobster in a Tank

Sobey’s has a great aquarium stocked full of lobster making lobster portrait taking super easy. This was taken with my new Canon A2000 IS point and shoot. The camera boasts 6 times optical zoom, but yesterday I was enamoured with the macro settings.

Lobster was a ridiculous $6.99 a pound this weekend at the store! Not sure if it’s Newfoundland lobster or Nova Scotia lobster…most of the fish the giant superstore carries is from Nova Scotia I was told.

Which reminds me of a conversation I had a few months ago at the sane fish shop. I was checking out a flounder up close, because I find them fascinating. Flounders are like halibut – these fish start out normally, symmetrical, but slowly during adolescence one eye starts to migrate to the other side of its head until both the eyes are on the same side. Then the fish turns on its side, sinks to the bottom and becomes a bottom feeder, it’s two eyes now at the top of its head, which was formerly a cheek.

Since I, raised in landlocked Toronto, had never seen one, I had my nose pressed up to the glass, checking out the Picasso-esque nature of the fish, when I sparked the interest of the woman working the counter. I remarked to her how wild I thought it was that the fish started out normally, but by the time they grew up, they came out all crazy like that.

She returned my comment with a deadpan, “yep, like most of the people in my family.”

Newfoundland humour. I loves it.

Newfoundland Winter

What’s a Newfoundland winter like? Well, I am not even one full month into winter if you count December 21 as the first day of winter. But from what I’ve heard this has been a good one so far, as there was hardly any snow. Up until now.

This is a pic from Monday Jan. 12 after a particularly pretty snow fall. It was light and fluffy, and did one of those excellent blanketing jobs.

Today, with a winter warning effect, is going to be “some different.”

That’s the expression I have picked up first: adding the word “some” in front of nouns to describe things – like that’s some pie. And that’s some beard you have got growing there.

I like this “some” thing.

I don’t like how hard it is to get around in the city during winter. It is some hard. More on that later.

A Pretty View Just Around Every Bend

Newfoundland abounds with scenic drives. You never know when you will turn a corner and see glorious views or vistas before you. Just about any moment while driving

Sea Pictures – Lobster Traps

This is a very romantic picture of the sea at sunset casting a warm glow over lobster traps in the Change Islands.

Stack of Lobster Traps at a Dock, Change Islands, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada

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Newfoundland Morning Mist

Morning Mist on Coast of Newfoundland, Canada

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