What’s the measure of a good four day trip? Maybe when you don’t quite know where to start and you go to the default of wanting to start from the beginning– and you already sense that unless you’re telling the story to the one you travelled with (a joint remembering), the immobile or the young (and only in small bursts of story), you’ll not only lose your audience but also lose in the telling what was most important; the palpable sense of being ‘away’ for a little while with its corollary sense of feeling the stress leave, and just feeling, well, comfortable in all the right ways.
A new province visited and another reason to restoke those Canada-philic feelings. Nova Scotia and more specifically, the Glooscap Trail along the Bay of Fundy, where the rise and ebb of tides in its height is greater than any other place on earth. I don’t know what S and I were thinking in terms of landscape, but this place–from the city of Halifax to the interior to the coastline– is a beautiful place. It’s a place where the coniferous forests give way (in some kind of Canadian-balanced manner) to the roads and paths that cut through them (for both cars and hikers), and the coastline and the water moving in an out by the tides, patterns everything in between. A place where it’s forecasted a gloomy week of rain, and where we are lucky enough to get two full sunny days, along with the appropriate fog rolling in adding that extra sense of drama to the rocky beaches and lighthouse on Spencer’s Island and the favorite, Cape D’Or.
And lastly, a place that’s forgiving enough to let you in on an unanticipated extra evening and day (coupled by the forgiveness and graciousness of my teacher friends with whom I was supposed to lead a educational conference session)… revealing another slice of Halifax on the other side of its bay and the quiet of a good, simple cafe in the morning where the proprietor adds a few extra cookies in the bag-to-go for extra measure.
A few pictures below…
S on marshy shore
Late afternoon fog
Lighthouse at Cape D'Or
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Four Days in Nova Scotia
What’s the measure of a good four day trip? Maybe when you don’t quite know where to start and you go to the default of wanting to start from the beginning– and you already sense that unless you’re telling the story to the one you travelled with (a joint remembering), the immobile or the young (and only in small bursts of story), you’ll not only lose your audience but also lose in the telling what was most important; the palpable sense of being ‘away’ for a little while with its corollary sense of feeling the stress leave, and just feeling, well, comfortable in all the right ways.
A new province visited and another reason to restoke those Canada-philic feelings. Nova Scotia and more specifically, the Glooscap Trail along the Bay of Fundy, where the rise and ebb of tides in its height is greater than any other place on earth. I don’t know what S and I were thinking in terms of landscape, but this place–from the city of Halifax to the interior to the coastline– is a beautiful place. It’s a place where the coniferous forests give way (in some kind of Canadian-balanced manner) to the roads and paths that cut through them (for both cars and hikers), and the coastline and the water moving in an out by the tides, patterns everything in between. A place where it’s forecasted a gloomy week of rain, and where we are lucky enough to get two full sunny days, along with the appropriate fog rolling in adding that extra sense of drama to the rocky beaches and lighthouse on Spencer’s Island and the favorite, Cape D’Or.
And lastly, a place that’s forgiving enough to let you in on an unanticipated extra evening and day (coupled by the forgiveness and graciousness of my teacher friends with whom I was supposed to lead a educational conference session)… revealing another slice of Halifax on the other side of its bay and the quiet of a good, simple cafe in the morning where the proprietor adds a few extra cookies in the bag-to-go for extra measure.
A few pictures below…
S on marshy shore
Late afternoon fog
Lighthouse at Cape D'Or
Halifax, Nova Scotia