{"id":515,"date":"2016-07-18T14:06:26","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T18:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/?p=515"},"modified":"2016-08-07T02:16:42","modified_gmt":"2016-08-07T06:16:42","slug":"july-18-halifax-nova-scotia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/2016\/07\/18\/july-18-halifax-nova-scotia\/","title":{"rendered":"July 18: Halifax, Nova Scotia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arjan is not feeling well, so it is my turn to write again. We are almost out of our prohibitively expensive internet package on the ship, so we will have to finish the blog after we get home.\u00a0 Lots of good things to come for our regular readers!<\/p>\n

We experienced fog horns again all night.\u00a0 No matter how sunny or clear during the day, the fog rolls in every time we leave a port and we sail in pea soup until the next port. Better than the other way around\u2026makes paying for a cruise worthwhile!<\/p>\n

\"Port
Port of Halifax, Nova Scotia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Halifax is blessed with one of the world\u2019s best natural harbors, and it seemed really grand compared to all the ports we have been visiting lately. Today\u2019s weather in Halifax was cloudy-bright, without a drop of sunshine all day. We have been to Halifax before, and the most interesting shore excursion option was Peggy\u2019s Cove, where my grandparents painted many times, so we opted to stay in town and walk around on our own.<\/p>\n

\"Halifax
Halifax Harbourwalk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We took our time getting off the ship and then strolled along the very well-developed Halifax Harbourwalk for a couple of miles, passing all kinds of docks and boats and cafes and fast food sheds.<\/p>\n

\"Halifax
Halifax Harbour Tug: Theodore Too<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There was a Columbian tall ship in town that arrived after we did, and it was great to see all the sailors in their starched white uniforms exploring the town, too.<\/p>\n

\"Columbian
Columbian Ship ARC Gloria<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Furling
Furling Columbian Flag<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After following the Harborwalk for almost an hour, we turned up George Street towards the Halifax Citadel, Halifax\u2019s famous fort on its rise above the port, passing the Grand Parade ground and the 200-year-old town clock on the way.<\/p>\n

\"Halifax
Halifax Town Clock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Halifax
Halifax Citadel Sentinel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We were in time to watch the enactors fire the noon gun, a tradition going back to when the fort was actually manned.<\/p>\n

\"Firing
Firing the Citadel Noon Gun<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was also great to run into Mackenzie again in his natural habitat, a piper who visited our ship and played for us several times on the sail between St. John\u2019s and Halifax. By now, I have talked to him so many times, it felt like we have become old friends.<\/p>\n

\"Citadel
Citadel Piper Mackenzie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Because Arjan didn\u2019t feel well, we cut our day short and returned to the ship early. Arjan visited the ship\u2019s doctor after we got back and got a prescription that should have him feeling as good as new by the time we arrive in Boston on July 20.<\/p>\n

During the day, whenever we saw something that might merit more time, we kept telling ourselves we can come back any time, now that we are back on our side of the Atlantic. One was the immigration museum at Pier 21, right next to where we docked, and another the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, which our cruise location guide Barbara pointed out as being one of the three best she has ever experienced worldwide.<\/p>\n

As we sailed out of Halifax, guess what? We sailed back into the fog!<\/p>\n

Photographs \u00a9 2016 P.J. Gardner<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Arjan is not feeling well, so it is my turn to write again. We are almost out of our prohibitively expensive internet package on the ship, so we will have to finish the blog after we get home.\u00a0 Lots of good things to come for our regular readers! We experienced fog horns again all night.\u00a0 … Continue reading “July 18: Halifax, Nova Scotia”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-cruise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":567,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions\/567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pjgardner.com\/travel3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}