From Here To There... Archive

Lunch in Halifax

I'm down in Nova Scotia this week, today and tomorrow I'm in the Truro area and then down in Kejimkujik for the rest of the week. Today was a travel day, so we had the opportunity to have lunch in Halifax.

Across from the restaurant was NovaScotian Crystal, it is on the waterfront and the glassworks area is open to the street. Here is the one guy blowing the glass.

Then he passed it off to another guy who added the handle.

The glass jug with handle.

The oven.

Somewhere along the waterfront.

Some of the boats in the harbour.

Close-up of the floats on the boat.

A lighthouse on Georges Island.

Some jellyfish in the harbour.

This is a cool play structure on the waterfront, it is shaped as a boat.

A sign outside the visitor information centre.

A sign on the wharves, "Wooden Wharves Please Do Not Smoke".

It was low tide at mid day.

Tidal Bores

My ride for the week in Nova Scotia is a Toyota Highlander. Quite the change from my Yaris.

We started the day near Jackson, Nova Scotia, it's about half way between Truro and Amherst. The site is at an old fish hatchery. The ponds and raceways are overgrown.

An old abandoned building.

I like the door on the second floor.

We had to travel on part of the Cobequid Pass Toll highway.

We drove the north shore from Truro to Annapolis Royal to get to Kejimkujik. We crossed over the Shubenacadie River, it is Nova Scotia's longest river. The lower 30 km of the river is tidal and the river experiences a tidal bore twice daily, with some bores reaching up to 3 m in height at certain points along the river. Here is the river before. You can see mud flats across the river.

Here you can see the tidal bore approaching.

There are a series of piers from the old bridge, notice how calm the water is.

After the tidal bore has come through you can see the wave action.

Some of the sights around the lookout point.

The new bridge which spans the river.

Another of the piers that has been overgrown with vegetation.

There was a fog hanging over the Cobequid Bay.

Ticks and Toads

The weather this week was pretty good, a few days of clouds, but no significant rain as forecasted. The blackflies were out in full force, even the operator admitted she pulled out her bug jacket at the beginning of the week because they were getting bad. Here I am in my bug jacket. Of course my hands got chewed alive.

As well the ticks seemed to be worse then I have ever seen. Almost every time you went outside you were bound to pick a couple of ticks up, they like to hang on to the tall grass and railings and as you walk by they jump off and onto your pants, shoes, whatever. Here is a tick on my pants, the penny shows the size of the tick.

A closer look at the tick. This looks like the wood tick. It is the blacklegged tick which carries lyme disease.

I saw this toad as I was leaving the site.