Island Bay

Jeff and Connie’s home is near the Humber River which empties into Island Bay. Today we drove out the South shore of the bay stopping to take photos as we went.

Jeff says that in the summer the pool below this little falls is a favorite swimming spot for the local teens but the water is too cold this time of year so we had it to ourselves.

At Little Cove this fisherman was returning after putting his catch away.

Bottle Cove

At Little Cove the stack of lobster traps seemed to mimic the shape of the mountain beyond.

Tom

Cape St. George

Yesterday we drove out Cape St George. The scenery was gorgeous.

This formation is called “The Boot”…

Fishing boat

“Our Lady of Mercy” Catholic church in Stephanville.

Tom

Cape Breton (Cabot Trail)

Though Cape Breton is known for it’s Scottish heritage, the Eastern side of the cape was settled by the French. This lovely old Catholic church was in the town of Cheticamp on the French side.

The real star of Cabot Trail around the top of the Cape is Highlands National Park.

At our last stop I was fortunate enough to catch a nice spray shot.

Tom

Halifax Citadel

There have been fortifications on the hill where the Citadel now stands for 250 years. The present citadel was built in 1856. Costumed docents represent infantrymen of the 78th Highland Regiment and naval gunners who manned the heavy cannon of the fort.

Barracks building

Old gun; modern city.

Officers drill new recruits.

Tom

Peggy’s Cove

We spent the morning in Peggy’s Cove, a Nova Scotia Historic Preservation Site. This little fishing village has the appearance of a early 20th century fishing village. The lighthouse at the mouth of the cove is one of the prettiest lighthouses you’ll ever run across.

The town is really picturesque as well.

Nova Scotia, as the name implies, has a strong Scottish heritage. The day we visited coincided with a phalanx of tour busses from a Princess cruise ship docked at Halifax. We believe that was what attracted the piper.

 

Tom

Lunenburg

We got to Nova Scotia relatively early this morning

and stopped to take a photo of Cape D’or lighthouse

When I took this it was cold, windy and hard rain. It took a fair bit of work to make it look like it ought to…

We ended the day in Lunenburg. A small city with a long shipping tradition

Tom

A Tale of Woe….

First of all, apologies for not getting started with this a couple of days ago but somehow, days have been hectic and I’ve not gotten to my blog…

Two days ago we were in Vermont seeing the things we expected to see there.

Anyway, late in the afternoon I was trying to get a photo of a little waterfall and there were branches in the way so I needed to get out into the creek a bit. There were nice solid and flat rocks to stand on so no problem, I can do that except on of them was a bot wet. Foot slipped and I ended up in the creek with my camera 8” underwater. Oops! The photo wasn’t even that great…

We dried if off as best we could and it seemed to be working OK except the next morning I had condensation inside the lens so all those pix were bad. By the afternoon it seemed OK again

but most of this trip we’ll be in Newfoundland where there won’t be easy access to camera shops so we detoured through Portland, ME and I picked up a new camera. It’s not a full frame sensor like my D700 but it has some features not on the D700 that I wanted. Today we crossed over into New Brunswick, Canada and I started getting to know it. So far so good.

Today we’ll be in Nova Scotia….

Tom