East Coast 2022

July 29

Took the ten minute boat ride to George’s Island. They have a lunch you can order ahead of time to bring over with you so we got the ploughman lunch (sandwich things). It was spitting a bit when we headed over, so we got complimentary ponchos lol. We started with the 15 minute guided tour of the under tunnel system. The island only opened to visitor on 2022, but was a strategic site for major conflicts since the Seven Years’ War. I’ve heard before they draped nets on either side of the island to catch U-boats, and today they said the had explosives under the water to do the same (though they couldn’t stop them from attacking further out.

Bridge to Dartmouth (on the right)…stripped red and white pole is the site of the Halifax explosion

Pier 21 (yellow building), where grandpa came over from England

Trying to eat our ploughman picnic lunch in the increasing worsening rain

The picnic lunch bag after the rain (we finally found a garbage for it on the ten minute ferry back)…the ferry runs back and forth all day every 40 minutes

Wasn’t sure if we could bring Nala with us to Mahone Bay/Lunenburg because we were doing a guided testing at the Ironworks Distillery in Lunenburg and we weren’t sure we could bring Nala, but….I emailed and she was able to come so the following is a collection of photos of places we revisited from 2016 with Nala lol. We were lucky too because the rain subsided but they time we got to Mahone Bay (though we drove back to the hotel in soupy fog!)