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Nova Scotia and the maritime playground
... created like most by ancient glacial retreat, has left the granite landscape gouged with giant v-shaped canyons with exposed sheer cliffs more than 2,000 ft tall.
Driving to Broom's Point we were pleasantly surprised to take in a National Park cultural interpretive with Louise Decker, one of the first women fisherman in the area. She was a vibrant, animated storyteller who had each of us hooked on to her every word as she spoke, in her heavy Newfie accent, ...
Letting Go....
... someone, that they could, and should be doing themselves". So in my desperation to save my marriage, and in my inability to see that Gerry was choosing his behaviour, I tried harder and held on tighter. Well that worked out well.
During all of this mess, my children were learning from us both. My daughter had valid challenges, but she also learned some manipulation techniques from Gerry. She was looking to me for a role model, and ...
Visiting in Halifax
... to Duncan's cove to see the seals my gf told me were always there. There were none, so now she owes me seals (ok, not really... I did see one crossing the Deer Island :) ). Although I believe we went to the wrong spot (apparently there is a secret path). Found a creepy house that from a distance I thought looked suspiciously like an abandoned laboratory. Managed to take various wrong roads trying to loop back around ...
Halifax Metro and the Southern Shores
... and rebuilt for 2011. The original Ironworks (blacksmith) shop used to make the fittings for the Bluenose and other ships built in the area now houses a distillery. They make rum and vodka, including some flavoured vodka of blueberry, cranberry and apple. We sampled some of each and went away with a bottle of the cranberry vodka.
Further down the Lighthouse Route we stopped at the town of Shelbourne, a Loyalist ...
...and a beer
... was a lovely spot, an old gypsum quarry where the locals come to picnic and swim. It was fairly quiet and the water not too cold. Sadly, the Canadian insects are still after my blood so I have acquired more bites - I'm hitting the Benadryl and hydrocortisone cream again.
Emily dropped me and my junk at her apartment before taking Pete off to the airport. Unfortunately, his flight was ...


