Rock Lobster

Lobster creels, photo by VikingChild

This one is fairly simple - I live in a seaside (fishing) town, so here are some lobster pots stacked outside a shed.

I like the fact that our fishing heritage has not been completely lost to oil, and that such things are caught (and eaten) near here, with many good fish restaurants dotted round the North East coast - just some are the Silver Darlings, Creel Inn, and the Tolbooth.

Back to literature - the Silver Darlings is named after the Neil M. Gunn novel of 1941 about uprooted crofting communities of the Highland clearances turning to the sea and to fishing. Perhaps there's a message too about adapting to circumstance, as now fishing communities adapt and change. A Scots classic, and worth a read.