Trip to Maine

The first day in Maine we went to the Marine Research Center. This is a facility where they hold rare species of lobsters, sharks, and fish that can all be found in the Gulf of Maine. These two lobsters have a different color to there shells then we are used to seeing. They are these colors because of a lack of pigments in there shells. All lobsters have the three main pigments, red, yellow, and blue. If they have them all they are brown like we are used to seeing. If they are missing some they turn out different colors like the lobsters below.

 The second day of going to Maine we traveled to Portland. In Portland we went out to lunch at a great seafood diner. Later in the day we went and checked out a fish market, the fish market sold just about everything that can be caught and ate in the ocean. It was cool to see how the other end of the lobstering is run which is selling the lobster.