Halifax

  I really liked Halifax back in my navy days and it was nice to see it again. I came in from the north over the big harbor bridge from Dartmouth and saw the Canadian naval fleet parked below.

   This morning i parked harbor side at the Maritime Museum for a couple of hours; it's not a big place and smaller than I remember. There's a small display from the Titanic disaster with some of the  ships floating debris on display. There's a cemetery in town where the dead passengers and crew are buried, some of the dead we're never identified. I'll make that visit at some future trip.

   Even more impressive was a film and display about the great 1917 explosion in Halifax harbor when a fully loaded ammunition ship collided, caught fire and exploded in the inner harbor; 2,000 city residents died in the blast and 9,000 more were injured. It is said to be the largest man made explosion in the world prior to Hiroshima.

   When I left the museum I drove south through the city to Peggy's Cove lighthouse, there are a lot more tourists there than my last visit 30 years ago. I drove a bit more to Lunenburg for lunch and a walk about. I arrived in foggy Yarmouth around dinnertime and will catch the morning ferry to Portland, Maine.