Belfast has a very well resourced public seafront: moorings, pontoons, fuel, water, launching ramp for local boats. You can just spot Kelper out in the river to the right of the Harbour Office.

Belfast has a thriving centre - a whole range of services and shops and restaurants - on the main road up from the waterfront.

Andrez's job was to prepare the bait. This involved cutting a hole in each piece of pig skin before threading them onto a stick with an eye on the end.

These are the traps that we spend so much time avoiding! Attached to rope and multicoloured buoys (personal to each lobsterman), they also have special links that break if a whale should get entan ...

Apart from measuring the backs of males and non-breeding females (they can't be kept if less than 3 and a quarter inches), any female with eggs is returned.

I don't know if I would call this the funniest or most horrifying exhibit - an early design for a 'winged' airplane ...

This is as close as we got to mooses. The tracks were everywhere.

There were lakes, rivers and forest in all directions to every horizon.

My first trip on a float plane - a trip down memory lane for Andrez. The Falklands used DeHavilland Beavers for many years

We climbed and climbed until we skirted the eastern flank and crest, and could peer down at the hiking trails that follow the knife edge ridges - only 3 feet wide in places. Not for me!