More Lobstahs!

We had parked last week near a Commercial Pier in New Harbor, Maine. I had noticed a boat similar to the one we had gone out on earlier unloading their lobster catch into some plastic boxes. Later I was looking down over that pier and saw this fellow doing something along the edge of the dock --

I realized that there was a long line of those plastic boxes floating in the water along the dock. They were hooked together by a long rope strung through their handles --

The young man inserted his metal hooks into the rope handles on the ends of the boxes --

I followed the line up to this post and pulley --

That was being used to hoist each of the boxes one by one out of the water --

As we watched, they hoisted twenty full boxes of lobsters --

Into the back of the waiting truck --

And then we watched the fellow in the truck shovel a pile of shaved ice over on top of the boxes --

According to one of the fellows we talked to, the boxes full of live lobsters which had been kept waiting in the water beside the dock until they had a truckload, would now be delivered directly to area restaurants.