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.