I'm on a Boat

I have realised I forgot to mention an amusing sight I saw last week at Peggy's Cove. While having a look at the garden of a chap who had carved some figures into a large chunk of granite which just happened to be there, we saw a taxi pull up, the door open and people lean out to take photos before shutting the door and being driven off. It just so happened there were some other English people there at the time who could join us in incredulity and fits of giggles. Oh and, of course, there was the mandatory "Bet they were Americans." I mean honestly the sheer laziness of some people.

The Bluenose II

So this weekend saw me travel to Lunenburg a place with a German name in a supposedly French area, pretty sure we've had the odd issue with this type of thing back in Europe but, it being Canada, all is well. Essentially it is a very pretty harbour where they have some rather beautiful ships, one of which is called the Bluenose and is on the Canadian dime, which is 10c for those of you who have no idea what the names of the money means like me. Also I should technically point out that it is actually the Bluenose II, as they rebuilt it and only finished it this summer.

The Picton Castle setting sail

There were also some other tall ships about, one of which, the Picton Castle, we followed out as it set sail to go round the Pacific rim. Was quite a cool thing to do, our boat was rather smaller so felt dwarfed by the Picton Castle, strange that we were probably the last other people that the sailors will see for a couple of months. I believe that it was also used during the filming of Pirates of the Carribean which is kinda cool as well. We also discovered that the HMS Bounty which was sunk by the Sandy had left from Lunenburg only a couple of weeks earlier, so it was a shame they hadn't decided to wait a bit longer. Also in the harbour was a Greenpeace ship that had been impounded for ramming the Canadian coastguard, not the most intelligent of plans.

Indian Falls

On the way back to Halifax we stopped off at Indian Falls which was a nice little waterfall. Met some rafters on the way down the track, who had just been down the falls, and managed to lock themselves out of one of their cars, so gave them a lift a couple of kilometers down the road. This was slightly less worrying than intial thoughts as we'd first seen a chap running down the track with a first aid sized box, and then seen two other very disconcerted looking chaps at the end of the track.