P.E.I Lobster Season

EH Bros and Lobster Dinner

May 1st is the opening day of lobster season here on Prince Edward Island, Canada. For Bro and I it is melted garlic butter season too. Any mouth watering morsel of lobster, crab, mussel or shrimp should always take a long hot bath in a bowl of melted garlic butter first. It is heaven.

Down the road in our little corner of the world is a fishing dock.  Now-a-days the pier creaks and groans in the night only to wake  up every morning naked of boats and people.  A ghost town on water.

It is during the night when the docks come alive.  The creaks and groans are loudest as lobster boat motors hum and cranes crackle loading traps.  This is the time of year when life on the docks is booming in lobster life.  The traps are set and  boats forge their way out and into  the harbour, one after the other.  The boats sagging low as they are weighted down in lobster gear.  One such boat was in the news recently that got itself beached on a sand bar when setting its traps.

EH Eberlee House on PEI

Lobster life is a daily routine for 2 months or so on PEI, Canada. The lobster boats leave at around 2-4 AM in the morning and arrive back at the docks by 1 PM. The dock look  like a city skyline the first few days with stacks of traps piled on top of each other forming skyscrapers and tall buildings. 

At night, before the purple skies sleep, the boats are moored off shore hidden in shadows and under the beam of moonlight waiting for the next morning rush.

At 1 PM almost everyday Bro and I take a break from work and sit, listen and watch as the boats arrive with clouds of birds following looking for scraps. Watching and learning different Canadian cultures is a joy of ours.

PEI Lobster Served

In the beginning of lobster season … we were twisting and turning waiting for the first day and our first Atlantic lobster dinner. One day we were deciding on which night to feast when, out of the blue, our wonderful friends at the Eberlee House delivered us a lobster dinner. It was already prepared with a salad and a lobster shell as decoration. Soon later the melted garlic butter bath was prepared for our lobster guests.

Canadian seafood is all that it is made out to be… purely mouth watering bliss if you are a seafood lover. Lets hope, as a society learns, we leave behind a healthy seafood population for the next generation of garlic butter melters to enjoy. Thank you Eberlee House for a fine Prince Edward Island lobster meal. You rock!