After 30 years, I bid adieu to the Maritimes but before I left Halifax, I had made a promise to honour my mother at Peggy's Cove. The weather was typical of a day nearing the…
Zamboni on the Halifax Common Speed Skating Oval
I have to admit, it's been a great February so far but that cold, north wind cuts to the bone even 5 degrees above zero (Celsius). I was walking through the Halifax Common and caught…
Mackerel Fishing in October: Bedford Basin
Would you really eat that? Is what I asked the old codger casting his lure with 6 hooks out into the basin, dude could get some distance on that cast I tell ya. He'd been…
USS Dwight D. Eisenhauer Halifax Harbour
I Need a Bigger Boat The US Navy and the Queen Mary II visits Halifax over the Canada Day weekend in honour of Canada's 150th anniversary. Read More
Halifax Public Gardens: Spring 2017
Big Aperture Day at the Halifax Public Gardens Having an appointment on Quinpool Road today, I grabbed my camera and took a walk downtown. I set my F as low as it could go to…
Peggy’s Cove Road Trip
It was great day for a drive from Halifax to Peggy's Cove via Highway 333 and St Margarets Bay. Read More
BLT Rails to Trails Near Timberlea Nova Scotia
Another cycle to a waterfall on a hot August day in 2015. Read More
Clyde the Baby Bird
Survival of the Fittest is the rule of the jungle. It took me a couple of years to document this story as the ending is sad. Read More
Queen Mary 2 Visits Halifax Harbour
Cycling around Halifax with a camera I had the good fortune of being downtown on a sunny day while the Queen Mary 2 was in port off Pier 21 and Georges Island. Read More
Fire Station #5 Halifax
Not much brass in a fire station After hanging out at the rotunda on the basin, I cycled into Fairview and saw the firefighters cleaning trucks and gear at Fire Station #5 on Bayers Road.…
The Rotunda on Bedford Basin
Prince's Lodge Round House Tucked away on the shore of Bedford Basin is a structure built in the 1790s by Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent as part of the estate built during Prince Edward's…