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Dave and His Traps
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 ...
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Baiting the Traps
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.
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These Girls Go Back
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.
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Owl's Head
I don't know if I would call this the funniest or most horrifying exhibit - an early design for a 'winged' airplane ...
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A Difficult Moment
The foreshortening of the picture doesn't do justice to the gaps between the rocks, nor does it show the drop-off to the left into a waterfall!
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Our transport for the day
My first trip on a float plane - a trip down memory lane for Andrez. The Falklands used DeHavilland Beavers for many years
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The View From Up There
There were lakes, rivers and forest in all directions to every horizon.
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Mt Katahdin From The Air
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!