#5 Hwy 100 Saint John by Ocean Steel
#10 Westmount Rd looking to Sydney River
@habfanman, looks like you had a great trip. Thanks for sharing your photos. Your roadies look familiar to me, they don't happen to be Cape Bretoners do they?
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#5 Hwy 100 Saint John by Ocean Steel
#10 Westmount Rd looking to Sydney River
@habfanman, looks like you had a great trip. Thanks for sharing your photos. Your roadies look familiar to me, they don't happen to be Cape Bretoners do they?
It was the best! Elien is from Belgium and Jana is from Hamburg but they'll be happy to know that you've paid them the ultimate compliment!
OK, there was only one sour note to the trip. In N.B. I ordered 2 pieces with poutine on the side and was presented with this! The fish was awesome but.. some sort of fries/gravy/cheese concoction?? I curd you not! lol
We meant to do a whole lot more exploring in N.B. and P.E.I. but the weather, which had been mostly beautiful in Cape Breton/Eastern Shore/Northumberland, took a turn for the worse. Our rental didn't have snow tires (!) which made things more difficult. Another factor was the 5pm sunset which shaved about 4 hours off the day compared to summer. Still, the snowy/rainy/foggy conditions leant a special kind of stark beauty to the landscape.
Took a day trip to the Valley today. First two photos are of Lawrencetown, third is of downtown Windsor, and the fourth and fifth are of Wolfville from a couple of points in Starr's Point;
The last pic is the notorious cookin' (and if your lucky) 'bangin' spot on the Antigonish landing. When we were younger we'd jump off the train tressel into the river but it's pretty dirty these days. Don't know if you guys ventured past the bridge because we built a big camp in the woods down the side of the tracks into the woods, many a parties down there during high school. Sick pics!
We followed the tracks all the way out to Williams point one day. Today we biked the road back up to Williams point and followed the tracks to south harbour road. Didn't notice any camps. Unless it was that old ATV trail we found and followed down to the water. I'm sure we will end up finding it at some point, we've doing all kinds of adventures around the last few days.
This is the interpretive centre on the Big Salmon River. There are some interesting hiking trails starting at this point, including one that crosses the river on a suspension walking bridge and leads to the William Randolph Hearst Lodge.
Another picture of the interpretation centre. You can see a bit of the Big Salmon River in front of the centre, with the Bay of Fundy in the background.
This is the lookout at Long Beach. You can see the beach in the center foreground, which is 500' below you. The headland in the distance is Cape Chignecto, Nova Scotia. The amazing thing about the lookouts along the trail is that on a sunny day, the entirety of the Bay of Fundy is laid out before you. You can literally see all the way down the bay as far as Digby Neck and back up the bay to Cape Chignecto and the entrances to Chignecto Bay and the Minas Channel. The views are glorious...
Another view of Long Beach, with Cape Chignecto in the distance. Chignecto Bay extends to your left and the Minas Channel to your right.
One day (hopefully in the not too distant future), they will complete the Fundy Trail all the way through to Fundy National Park. When that happens, there will be a continuous coastal scenic route connecting Saint John and Moncton. Stops along the way will include:
- St. Martins (sea caves, B&B's, Restaurants)
- The Fundy Trail Parkway
- Fundy National Park
- Alma (quaint fishing village, restaurants, service centre for Fundy Park)
- Cape Enrage (adventure tourism, fossils, voted Canada's best view by Conde Nast)
- Hopewell Rocks (New Brunswick's signature natural attraction)
The completed coastal drive from Moncton to Saint John will be New Brunswick's version of the Cabot Trail. An easy day trip between NB's two largest cities with breathtaking scenery along the way.
This year marks the 25th Anniversary of the buskers festival in Halifax. Each year dozens of acts preform all over Downtown with 500'000+ people flocking to the neighbourhood to take in the tradition (that is more than the population of Halifax). Every year since before I was born my family has went for one evening to enjoy the fun, food and fire throwers. I managed to snap some shots the other day before my memory card was full and since buskers cannot truly be viewed through stills I have a few short videos as well. I've thrown in some random shots from my walk downtown that include a couple of developments (to fit the focus of this site).
All photos and videos posted below are mine. Feel free to reproduce these anywheres on the Skyscraperpage Forum but ask before posting to external sites. As always these are a selection and more can be viewed in the Halifax subsection.
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