Big Dee-Dee’s Big Adventure
Monday, July 21st, 2008 
Big Dee-Dee and an average-sized lobster. (Photo: TheStar.com)
By now, you’ve probably heard of Big Dee-Dee. If not, let me enlighten you. Big Dee-Dee is a recently-caught, century-old lobster that weighs 10-kg. That’s close to twenty times the size of a lobster you’d get in a restaurant! Denis Breau, the owner of a fish store in Shediac, New Brunswick, has finally decided Big Dee-Dee’s fate. Despite $5000 being offered to serve the lobster at a banquet here in Ontario and $1000 by a group in Vancouver wanting to set the creature free, the crustacean will be donated to the aquarium at the Huntsman Marine Science Centre in St. Andrews, N.B.
Seeing the photo of Big Dee-Dee got me thinking about the most impressive animal I’ve ever seen. I can’t decide between the imposing elephants, the elegant-necked giraffes or the 5 metre-long crocodiles I saw in Kenya. I witnessed all these animals from the safety of a Land Rover, though. In Costa Rica, I laid eyes on smaller caymans but was in an open boat, so the danger - whether real or perceived - was perhaps more palpable. But then, nothing says impressive like travelling over Moroccan sand dunes on the back of a camel. That was pretty memorable, too!
What’s the most impressive animal you’ve ever seen? Was it in nature? At a zoo? In a museum? What was striking about it? Have your say by clicking on the No Comments/Comments link below. Today’s bonus code is BIGDEEDEE. It will continue to impress Jack Nation members until July 23rd, then after that, not so much.