With a more than 3,000 frequent flier miles under his tail, Hercules the lobster arrived in Maine safely Wednesday morning.
After being set free of a silver-colored cooler, the 14-pound lobster spent the day in a special crate immersed into the waters of Friendship, Maine, Harbor acclimating to the water temperature and recovering from his adventures that included a Port Angeles supermarket lobster tank.
“He arrived alive, and officials from The Lobster Conservancy took him directly down to the water and put him in a floating crate,” said Stevens Middle School eighth-grade teacher Melissa Withrow.
The half-century-old lobster, which was for sale at Albertsons Food and Drug in Port Angeles for $200 last week, was rescued Tuesday by Stevens Middle School students and several North Olympic Peninsula businesses.
The lobster will spend 10 days under close observation by biologists before being released in the harbor in Maine.
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The rest of the story appears in Thursday’s Peninsula Daily News.