Most of the boats that travel this shallower side of the harbour are not large enough to take all their traps in one load.Today they began to haul lobsters. From now through next May we will notice the low bass sound of each diesel motor as it thrums along in the channel, going out to sea in the early morning darkness and coming home in the afternoon. The lobster boats have a peaceable sound about them, and in the island's silence we hear their going out and their coming in.
This post reminds me of the fishing boats in S.E. Alaska during my childhood - going out in the morning, coming in at night with their catch - it is a wonderful sound - and memory.
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