2020-02-03 At Sheffield Mills, NS the Eagles gather for daily feedings. The website is sheffieldmills.org
This makes a great opportunity to see a flock of Eagles up close and get some amazing photos.
My Flick album Eagle Watch 2020. starts with a trip to Rustico, PEI where I got some Eagle practice before the Sheffield trip.
2019-08-31 While I’ve been to the Scottish Highland Games in Belfast, PEI a number of times, it was great to see more of it at a new Event in Charlottetown.
This new event was called “PEI Scottish Highland Games Heavy Events” and held at the Charlottetown Event Grounds which was a great spot. This event has a Facebook page PEI Scottish Highland Games Heavy Events .
My online Flickr album from this Event is PEI Scottish Highland Games Heavy Events.
2019-08-03 I’ve been to this Event a few times and always enjoy the Music (Bagpipes & Drums), and watching the Scottish Highland Games competitions.
This event is Hosted by The Caledonian Club of PEI .
Here is my online album from the 155th PEI Highland Games at Belfast, PEI.
2019-07-07 This online photo album covers Two Visits to Aircraft Museums that I’ve been to before many times. However, it’s always good to drop in and see what’s new and what’s updated. The Greenwood Museum (GMAM) has it’s website here :
Greenwood Military Aviation Museum
The Halifax Museum (ACAM) website is here:
Atlantic Canada Aviation Museum
2019-04-17 We didn’t get to SXM last year because our Resort was closed for repairs. In the Fall of 2017 hurricane Irma caused considerable damage to the Island and many resorts were closed for a long time. Over a year later there is still much rebuilding to do, and thankfully our Resort was open early this year.
So some images will show shiny new things (like Sonesta), many other buildings have yet to recover and some may not be rebuilt.
My online album for SXM-2019 shows our Royal Islander Resort and the Maho area, as well as a new attraction of the Rainforest Adventures Zip line and chairlift. We didn’t take the Zip line down but the chairlift gave us some amazing views of Sint Maarten.
2019-03-01 This year our Cruise took in the Western loop on the Caribbean Princess.
A 7 night sail that took us to 4 new countries.
The first album Cruise-2019-SailAway has some photos from the Sail-Away at Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, FL.
Our first stop was at the Cayman Islands where we took a local tender to the Island and enjoyed a tour including a stop in HELL, a visit to the Turtle Farm and an exciting swim with the Stingrays on a sand-bar off island.
The next day we sailed into Roatan for another island tour and a great visit to the Gumbalimba nature Park with an Insectarium, Jungle bridge, Iguanas, and various colourful birds.
Our next stop was the country of Belize. Here again we used local tenders to get from the ship to the docks, which were very efficient even with the number of ships in port that day. The Belize City tour was on the Calypso Train, a rubber-tired vehicle with open passenger cars. This allowed great access to the city scenery with easy photography.
Our last stop was to the Island of Cozumel where we tied up along side 5 other Cruise ships, so the docks where very busy but manageable. Our tour this time took us out on a boat to the submarine Atlantis. We easy boarded the sub and descended to about 25ft then to over 100ft to view the reefs, and various fish. As we turned around we ascended to about 25ft again and came upon a shipwreck. It was a great surprise to see the divers there up close. Unfortunately the thick glass of the sub’s windows and the little amount of sunlight at depth made photography difficult. The sub was not allowed to use any lights around the protected reefs.
2018-09-28 During my visit to Yellowknife I took in the Nights-of-Wonder Photo Workshop and a visit to Buffalo Airways. Since we were there for the full week, we also drove around the city and surrounding area. So this album, Yellowknife-2018-09, contains some photos of the city and the Cameron Falls trip.
2018-09-27 Going up North to Yellowknife was on my to-do list for a long time, but a visit to Buffalo Airways was also on my ‘Bucket-List’. They give a free tour almost every day and it was a treat to walk around the Hangar and Ramp where the Famous TV Show “Ice Pilots NWT” was produced. Sadly they no longer do Passenger Flights so I didn’t get a ride in the DC-3 again. (My first and only DC-3 flight was with EPA from Charlottetown to Moncton in the Winter of 1967)
My online album of the Buffalo Airways Visit.
2018-09-23 Another great Photo Workshop with Dave Brosha and Paul Zizka. This time up North in Yellowknife. The Workshop had 3 nights but only the second night did we see a full display of Northern Lights, and it was spectacular.
My online album Nights-of-Wonder-2018 shows some of the photos taken at the Workshop.
2018-09-03 It was a busy Labour Day Weekend. First the Mudrooters on the dirt track on Sunday, then to the paved oval at Oyster Bed Raceway.
A number of race classes from minis to full-size cars made for an exciting evening. For dessert there was the Demolition Derby that followed.
Here is the link to my Oystery-Bed_Stock-Cars_Demo2018 Flickr Album.
