Friday 22 July 2016

Exploring Big Tancook Island

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Last week, I headed off to Big Tancook Island with my friends Sara and Sybil and Sybil’s dogs Wendy & Sooki. It’s a 50 minute ferry ride each way and the only mode of transportation for visitors on the island is by foot (residents have vehicles, mostly old pick-up trucks). It’s not what we were expecting – not so much charm and quaintness, more of a backroads kinda vibe.

We were a bit confused about the free bicycle rental.

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Sybil pondering this…


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Turns out, if you buy lunch at the cafe next to the bike rental place, you get a free bike to explore the island.  The sandwiches at the cafe are delicious – loved the curry bread – but the service is a bit slow!

This was also a bit confusing… are those killer picnic tables?


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More things that make you go HMMMMM….


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I was expecting more colourful houses like these ones…


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But most of the houses and buildings were more like this. The old weathered wood is quite beautiful, but I wanted more colour and whimsy!

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sheds by water


Of course, being an island, there are lots of boats…

 

boats in harbour


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pier and boat

Not all boats on the island are sea worthy…

 

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And not all the vehicles are road worthy. This is a 1954 Bridgewater fire truck. The siren still works, but it doesn’t have any back tires.

 

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There’s a museum/shop/library in Southeast Cove that’s quite interesting.

 

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fish

pulley close

whale



wishing stones


And another shop near the ferry that had some cool stuff like these colourful bottles…

 

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And some other cool stuff from our walk…


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lobster



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Wendy and Sooki don’t look too impressed!


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Would I go to Big Tancook Island again? Not any time soon. We did have fun and we enjoyed being outdoors on a beautiful sunny day. But it’s a bit like going to a restaurant and ordering a big slice of decadent chocolate peanut butter mousse cake for dessert, and getting a chocolate chip cookie instead :-)


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Tuesday 5 July 2016

All work and some play

Not every day is a work day around here – there’s also time for having fun and exploring too :-) These are some of the things I’ve been up to over the last few months…

Sometimes when Brian is doing work on the garage that I can’t help with – generally anything happening more than 10 feet above the ground – I wander off to explore the cliffs around our lot.



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cliffs looking up


I love hanging out with my buddies Sara & Sybil :-) They’re always up for exploring, and we always have a great time. These are some pics from our adventures over the last few months, starting with a live sand dollar that we found on Sand Dollar Beach. Did you know that sand dollars burrow their butt end into the sand? I didn’t even know they have butts!


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We went exploring in Blue Rocks and Stonehurst in April.


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stone outhouse 1


stone 3 houses


And exploring Bachmann’s Beach on Second Peninsula in May.


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Sybil often brings her dogs Wendy and Sooki. They’re awesome girls :-)


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On May 6th, the tall ship Picton Castle left Lunenburg on a voyage to France. I was up early enough to see her head out to sea, but Mother Nature had other plans. The fog that morning was insane, so I couldn’t see much. This is the best I could do, with a lot of tweaking in Picmonkey.

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June 3rd was Lobster Day. A bunch of us got together at my friend Barbara’s house and we cooked & cleaned & canned 225 pounds of lobster in 3 hours!


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And of course we go to the beach every day to walk the dogs :-)


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Getting artsy on the beach…

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There’s something to do every day here! I pretty much don’t stop till the sun goes down and the moon comes out…


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Hope you’re out there enjoying this awesome summer weather and having some fun adventures :-)

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