[Paddlewise] Tall ships - Small ships

Hi folks,

Since Thursday Halifax Harbour is loaded with 100+ Tall Ships.  It's 
crazy, the next free hotel room is a 2 hr drive away from Halifax.  I 
don't want to know what will happen during the weekend with all 
these people heading for the waterfront......
After touring the waterfront on Thursday with a bazillion other 
people, me and a friend took of Friday morning at 6 with our 
kayaks to take a more relaxed look at the tall ships from our small 
ships (I just learned that we were mentioned in a breakfast radio 
show when we were passing the radio station).
Never before a paddle in the harbour was that easy.  For the first 3 
hours there were hardly any other boats (power boaters sleep 
long), and later the cops and coastguard yelled at everybody to 
obey the speed limit of 5 knots.
The kayak perspective proofed to be perfect to get great looks at 
the tall ships.  At noon we pulled out.  By then the harbour was 
loaded with power boats and sail boats of all sizes.
Today I have to work, but tomorrow morning will see me on the 
water again..... Looking for the Tall ships from my small ship.

Cheers


Ulli



  
Ulli Hoeger
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Canada

uhoeger_at_is.dal.ca
web://is.dal.ca/~uhoeger/
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