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Day trip to Halifax
Wednesday June 4…11:00pm
Drove into Halifax today. It’s about an hour and a half drive from New Minas. Went for a walk in Point Pleasant Park. This park used to be a beautiful forest until Hurricane Juan destroyed most of the trees in 2004. You can see where the
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Let The Adventure Begin!
Son in law Justin drove us to Halifax airport yesterday morning. It was just easier for daughter Lindsey to stay behind with the young ones. Made it to Halifax airport with lots of time to spare for our 12:39pm departure to Newark, New Jersey. We checked...
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No Cruise This Year.
We had been looking at the options of how to get from Halifax to New York in early November in time for our November 6 departure to Windhoek, Namibia. Thought it might be interesting to hop on one of those fall New England cruises that is heading south,...
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Just To Clarify...
Reader Sherry asked some questions in her comment yesterday on the blog. Oh, and Sherry, the park we visited yesterday was a National Park, not a Provincial Park. The campsites in this particular National Park are all unserviced, but each park is different...
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Via Rail Part 1
Lindsey and Justin and Cameron drove us to Halifaxyesterday morning so that we could catch our 12:15pm train “The Ocean” which runs from Halifax to Montreal. It was a Sunday, so there was very little traffic on the roads and we made it with lots of...
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Head Of Jeddore, Nova Scotia
Sunday June 8…10:30pm It was very foggy this morning, and quite cool until the sun burned it’s way through about noon. We had to leave the campground by 1pm, and to get our money’s worth, that’s when we left. We drove through Halifax and Dartmouth...
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