How do you spell Canada?...

Leaving Sharon behind in England Philip and I flew to Halifax in Canada for a week for brother James' wedding. We broke out of the low cloud above Halifax and as far as the eye could see it was trees and lakes and more trees.

This white tail had twin fawns and made short work of James' germinating sweet corn. James and Robin just out of a small town called Antigonish about 2 1/2 hour drive north west of Halifax. They have a small 12acre block mostly of scrubby elders and a few maple and conifer trees and a wee 2 bedroom house.

Wood peckers

James and Robbins house.


A good kiwi bbq... ...we dont think the rocks will explode....
After the wedding a few people were coming back to the house for dinner and a party. Dad and i constructed this bbq from rocks pulled up from around the house and in the stream. It ended up pouring with rain so the bbq wasnt used till the following day, but it was a dam fine bbq.
The very happy couple.
The wedding was at 4pm on saturday the 4th of July at the local Presbytarian church. About 50 people attended and it was in James' words "a perfect day". The sevice was great and the church lovely.
We found this little guy on a walk to th etop of their property and beyond he had behavioral problems and bit James a few times, lucky he wasn't poisonous but he sure did stink!
Mahone Bay with its three churches side by side. Dad and i passed through this town on our way to our fishing charter out of Lunenburg with Bill Flowers, a very comical guy. The fishing trip was great and we caught a few cod and mackeral. The cod put up little fight and were full of worms so not altogether satisying to catch. I did at one stage get 1 cod and two mackeral on the same line but the mackeral were too small to put up much of a fight.


I saw quite a few bald eagles, this photo doesnt show it but they are a huge bird with a "body length of 70–102 centimeters, and a wingspan of 180–234 centimeters" (Wikipedia, 2009). They were really neat to see soaring around.

I spent my last day in Halifax and checked out a museum and had a locally guided tour of the supermarket... my highlight by far... hahaha. Well it was interesting, Kate Broadbent a great family friend was my guide and we checked how dificult it was to avoid high-fructose corn syrup. The museum was about Pier 21, a Pier where 1 million migrants arrived in Canada from 1930 to 1970, it was well laid out and really interesting, i would recomend if you are ever in Halifax. Halifax was also the place that the survivors of the Titanic disaster came back to, and it also had huge explosion in 1917 from the collision of two ships one loaded with amunition.
The following is from Wikipedia.
At 9:04:35 AM, the cargo of Mont-Blanc exploded with more force than any man-made explosion before it, equivalent to roughly 3 kilotons of TNT. (Compare to atomic bomb Little Boy dropped on Hiroshima, which had an estimated power of 15 kilotons TNT equivalent.).^[8] The ship was instantly destroyed in the giant fireball that rose over 1.9 kilometres (1.2 mi) into the air, forming a large mushroom cloud. Shards of hot metal rained down across Halifax and Dartmouth. The force of the blast triggered a tsunami, which rose up as high as 18 metres (60 ft) above the harbour's high-water mark on the Halifax side. It destroyed an area of about 350 acres and killed roughly 2000 people.

well i found it intersting anyway.

Oh and you spell Canada: c A n A d A