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My wife and I did a one week Elderhostel Whale watching / Lobster Fishing class/trip conducted on the coast of Maine about 3 years ago. We learned about the Atlantic Seacoast and the ecosystem. It was hosted by a U of Maine professor and a couple other knowledgeable school officials and it was very educational. We had 21 in the class, and we stayed in the college dorm rooms and ate in the school cafeteria and local restaurants. We had to travel way off shore to find the whales and we saw heard lots of them. We went out in the local bay with a actual working lobster fisherman and actually pulled,emptied and re-baited traps. Threw the "shorts" back into the ocean and placed elastics over the keeper's claws. They are "feisty-buggers" It was a great time and well worth the cost. But boy is that water cold!!!