Peggy's Cove

One morning this week the HMS Liverpool floated up to take up residence outside our office window, and I've been treated to a close-up view of life in the Royal Navy.

A whole lot of warships are in town for 'Fleet Week' and to commemorate the supply convoys that left from here during the war. A US aircraft carrier is in the distance, along with ships from Canada, the UK, Denmark and even Germany, who didn't send any submarines but instead a rather worn-out looking fuel tanker and a little frigate - at right.

On June 29th, with the HMS Liverpool departed the Queen came to 'review the fleet', sailing by our window.

This wasn't her

But, there she is, her majesty the Queen

The famous Ocean Towers

Night bouldering session at IMAX, Crystal Crescent Beach

Night bouldering session at IMAX, Crystal Crescent Beach

Night bouldering session at IMAX, Crystal Crescent Beach

Stonehurst East, Nova Scotia

Stonehurst East, Nova Scotia. I was staying in this house for the weekend. It's on a little island accessed by a footbridge.

Stonehurst East, Nova Scotia

Lunenburg, Nova Scotia

Lunenburg, Nova Scotia

Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. This company makes wooden 'dory' fishing boats.

Stonehurst East

Inside the house.

There was only this outhouse, no indoor bathroom. The battery on my camera ran out so this (and the previous picture) I took with my cell phone.

Stonehurst East, Nova Scotia. It's a peninsula and archipelago just outside of Lunenburg, on the South Shore of Nova Scotia about an hour south of Halifax

Evening bouldering session at Prospect, Nova Scotia

Evening bouldering session at Prospect, Nova Scotia

A forest destroyed by Hurricane Juan in September 2003.
Point Pleasant Park, Halifax 18/04/10

Islands near Peggy's Cove

Fish boxes at Sambro, just south of Halifax

This was a picture I submitted to a feature on the New York Times website, asking for pictures taken at noon EST on Sunday the 2nd of May. I only read about this 10 minutes before zero hour, so I just rushed out and snapped the first scene that seemed to encapsulate the north end Halifax on a Sunday morning.

Point Pleasant Park, Halifax 18/04/10

Point Pleasant Park, Halifax 18/04/10

Dover flour silos, Halifax 18/04/10

Boardwalk, Crystal Crescent Beach

Easter Sunday, Crystal Crescent Beach #2

Herring Cove, Halifax on Easter Monday. I was taking a break from my construction project

Bog near Herring Cove, Halifax

York Redoubt, a WWII searchlight and gun battery, guarding the anti-submarine net that was stretched across the mouth of Halifax harbour.

York Redoubt, Halifax

Prospect, near Halifax

Tribune Head, Herring Cove, Halifax. I drove out here the first chance I got, just because I'd seen a really cheap, but sort of gungy-looking, apartment for rent out here, right on the water. I didn't follow up on it, but I wanted to see what sort of a place Herring Cove was. It's pretty awesome, and about a 15 minute drive from the city. Tribune Head, it turns out, has a pretty interesting story behind it, recounted in this Wikipedia article about a Royal Navy ship named the HMS Tribune.

Springtime in Nova Scotia. Grand Lake, along Old Sambro Road.

What I saw when I looked up out of the bedroom window on my first morning in Halifax. 2/03/10

Halifax Airport departures. You can't take a tube of toothpaste on the plane with you, but a dozen live lobsters? Sure!