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/ *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced/forwarded outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
--- Ulli Hoeger <uhoeger_at_is.dal.ca> wrote: > Hi folks, > > Since Thursday Halifax Harbour is loaded with 100+ Tall Ships... -snip- > 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 I too, love looking at tall ships from my wee boaty. It must be really wonderful to paddle amongst so many at once! There's one who's homeport is nearby (Lady Washington - at Grays Harbor), and whenever she's in town, I love paddling around her, admiring the woodwork (she was built in the traditional style), and watching the crew scramble up, down, and all around the rigging. Lady Washington is also equipped with a blank-shooting cannon, and when I'm around, her captain enjoys shooting me out of the water (I will not be intimidated! ;-)). Melissa *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced/forwarded outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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