Two long bridges cross Halifax Harbour between the Halifax and Dartmouth sides. This one is the McDonald Bridge, which lies closer to the harbour mouth. From it you can look down on the dockyards and the marina we were moored at from September to November.
The gulls eat well by the waterfront. Sea urchins, crabs, mussels which cling to the marina floats and rocks - we can see what they eat because they use the flat surfaces of the marina docks as a convenient place to rest their food on. And of course they don't clean up after themselves...
In October the weather grew cooler, though still not cold, and the leaves began to turn, warning us that this year we were going to see winter come.
There are little bits of history scattered along the Dartmouth waterfront, and stopping to look and read you learn many interesting stories. This elegant and broken propeller is from the Canadian Coast Guard Ship John A. MacDonald. It was damaged by ice while the vessel was assisting the oil tanker SS Manhattan in her historic crossing of the Northwest Passage in 1969. There are several tales wrapped up in there for those who care to pursue them.
For us, this is the heart of Halifax and Dartmouth - the harbour, with all its boats and ships and the businesses that surround them. Part of the dockyard lies across from this marina. We were lucky enough to be able to move in to an empty slip here in October, and Into The Blue found shelter here during NorEaster Noel.
Two long bridges cross Halifax Harbour between the Halifax and Dartmouth sides. This one is the McDonald Bridge, which lies closer to the harbour mouth. From it you can look down on the dockyards and the marina we were moored at from September to November.
The gulls eat well by the waterfront. Sea urchins, crabs, mussels which cling to the marina floats and rocks - we can see what they eat because they use the flat surfaces of the marina docks as a convenient place to rest their food on. And of course they don't clean up after themselves...
In October the weather grew cooler, though still not cold, and the leaves began to turn, warning us that this year we were going to see winter come.
There are little bits of history scattered along the Dartmouth waterfront, and stopping to look and read you learn many interesting stories. This elegant and broken propeller is from the Canadian Coast Guard Ship John A. MacDonald. It was damaged by ice while the vessel was assisting the oil tanker SS Manhattan in her historic crossing of the Northwest Passage in 1969. There are several tales wrapped up in there for those who care to pursue them.
For us, this is the heart of Halifax and Dartmouth - the harbour, with all its boats and ships and the businesses that surround them. Part of the dockyard lies across from this marina. We were lucky enough to be able to move in to an empty slip here in October, and Into The Blue found shelter here during NorEaster Noel.
1 comment:
Margaret,
I am transfixed and transported with "Travels of Into the Blue" and find myself escaping here over and over again.
~Mer
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