{"id":344,"date":"2006-09-08T22:18:46","date_gmt":"2006-09-09T02:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/?p=344"},"modified":"2006-09-08T22:18:46","modified_gmt":"2006-09-09T02:18:46","slug":"lobsta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/?p=344","title":{"rendered":"Lobsta!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Going down to the dock to buy lobsters off the boat is just about as classic a Maine experience as you can have.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/weblog\/Bailey%20Island%20harbor.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Bailey Island harbor.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/weblog\/Bailey%20Island%20harbor-thumb.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"238\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We headed down to the tiny harbor 1\/2 mile from here, where the boats come in to Glen&#8217;s Lobsters every day after checking their traps all around the island.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/weblog\/Bailey%20Island%20lobsters%20uncooked.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Bailey Island lobsters uncooked.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/weblog\/Bailey%20Island%20lobsters%20uncooked-thumb.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"238\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We bought six 1-1\/4 lb lobsters right off the boat for $42.  The guy who sold them to us wasn&#8217;t sure if we had five or six in the bag, so we let them out in the bed of his pickup truck to re-count.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Bailey Island steaming lobsters.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/weblog\/Bailey%20Island%20steaming%20lobsters.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"376\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Adam has an outdoor lobster cooker, powered by propane.  We steamed them in a stainless basket.  This looks like a good accessory for our Airstream &#8230; if I could find a place to store it! <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/weblog\/Bailey%20Island%20lobsters%20cooked.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Bailey Island lobsters cooked.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/weblog\/Bailey%20Island%20lobsters%20cooked-thumb.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"238\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then Adam placed them all on the deck to cool, like fresh-baked pies &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/weblog\/Bailey%20Island%20cleaning%20lobsters.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Bailey Island cleaning lobsters.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/weblog\/Bailey%20Island%20cleaning%20lobsters-thumb.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"238\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; and not long after, Eleanor and Emma helped pick out all the meat. We&#8217;ll save it until tomorrow, for a special dinner.  This weekend both Adam &#038; Susan and Eleanor &#038; I will be celebrating our anniversaries.  We&#8217;ve been married 13 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Going down to the dock to buy lobsters off the boat is just about as classic a Maine experience as you can have. We headed down to the tiny harbor 1\/2 mile from here, where the boats come in to Glen&#8217;s Lobsters every day after checking their traps all around the island. We bought six [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tour.airstreamlife.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}