Lobster and other marine life marooned by the storm

Andy & Honey & I took a walk along the shore to see what damage the storm had done. As expected, the cliffs along the shore line were undermined from below by the enormous waves and high tides of the last few days and with the vast amounts of fast flowing water in rivers and brooks that have carved new pathways down to and into the ocean. What we weren't prepared for were the number of lobster -- enormous and very small -- smashed and/or stranded on the rocks, at least 50 in a 100 foot section. Some of them would have made a lovely supper but we ended up tossing any almost-alive creatures back into the water, the sheer number of the dead and near dead overwhelming our appetite. We also found, in that same area, a sculpin and a plethora of fat, pink, squishy blobs that we assume are some kind of sea slug, but so far have not been able to identify from web images. I've sent a picture of one to a marine biologist at Dalhousie hoping he will send us an ID,in which case I'll pass it on to you.

There have been power and phone outages, lots of flooding, and we are to have a repeat weather performance in the next couple of days. As I told one of my sisters in an email: During last week's hard rain, our septic overflowed. It's fixed and cleaned up, and now we’re ready for future shit (ha-ha), except that you’re never ready for the shit that happens, only the shit you THINK is going to happen.

On that note, keep your fingers crossed there will be no big surprises.

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