A loon can eat an 8” long eel alive, still wriggling.  He flips it so it goes down head first then gulps.  There was a lot of weird wiggling and twisting of the loons neck after that but he seemed to get it done.

Down east Maine is really north east of the rest of Maine.  Quite confusing or really just seems wrong since North is up, right.  Well, a little lesson in sailing and east coast weather and it all makes sense.  The prevailing winds here are out of the south-west so north and east are down wind.  Tada…downeast.

There are 3 million lobster traps in the waters offMaine.  Tiny bits of color can be seen across every bay since every lobster fisherman has his own color float to ID his traps.  Some are pretty unique designs since I guess they ran out of just different solid colors long ago.