NOVA SCOTIA

you've waited long and hard for some maritime pictures, so here is round one: let's start with Nova Scotia. We (meaning my family and I) began and ended our trip in Halifax. We spent a few days touring around various parts of Nova Scotia, before we made our way up to New Brunswick (NB will be the next posting)
Our first night in Halifax we went to a pub for dinner...beers all around!

Peggy's Cove is one of the most famous things in Nova Scotia. Here are some fishing boats in the village

And the famous lighthouse. It was quite foggy the day we were there (as you can tell) but it was still very beautiful, and there weren't too many people around

My brother, dad and I posing for a shot
hee hee....this sign cracked me up...no "deer crossing" signs for them...!!

Some boats in a harbour, a pretty classic east coast scene i think



This is Acadia University in Wolfville, NS. My grandma grew up in Wolfville and graduated from Acadia sometime in the 1940s, which is pretty cool considering not many women even went to University back then.

The maritimes are known for their red mud. Here, we're watching the tide come in, but you can sort of see a bit of the mud flats (beside the walkway) that remain when the tide has gone out

This is a tidal bore (i think that's how you spell it) which is a pretty cool phenomena. The crest of water you see is the result of the outflowing river water meeting (and being overtaken) by the inflowing rising tide

This is back in Halifax, up at the Citadel, a national historical site. It's a great big fortress that was built years ago to protect the city from intruders. Every day they shoot off the cannon at noon, so we stuck around to hear the loud BOOM!

The citadel is a wall within a wall within a wall and from the inside, when you peer over the edge down towards the city, it's a pretty big drop....so be careful, like this sign says...!!

And of course, some classic bag pipers