Halifax, We arrived at the Woodhaven Camp sites mid afternoon on Tue. We got things setup and shortly after that the pitter patter of rain drops started to fall. Halifax is an old city with very narrow streets and everything downtown is paid parking. Since the day Wed was a washout with rain all day we considered going into a museum. We just didn't want to walk the distances needed in pouring rain to get to them. We opted for a driving tour and scouted out where the best spot for parking would be on Thur.

We also found an Air museum with a couple Canadian Air Force planes outside.
The plan for Thur was to take a Harbour Hopper tour that drove through the city and then went into the harbour and toured the waterfront. Then we would go to the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. The weather was ugly enough we decided against the Hopper tour and just went to the museum. Great choice. We spent hours looking through the museum starting with a fabulous section on the Titanic. While all the living souls from the Titanic went to New York, all the recovered victims were brought to Halifax. More than 150 are in cemeteries in Halifax today. They had a deck chair from the ship as well as numerous other artifacts. The crews that recovered the victims saved some of the artifacts and made things like cribbage boards from them.


They had a replica of the deck chair available for people that wanted to sit in it and have their photo taken, shown above. They could even name the people from the ship in that picture behind the chair.
They had displays of models of various other ships from the late 1800's and early 1900's and detailed the change from sail to stream driven propulsion.

It was interesting to learn that when a ship builder was about to build a ship they had an exact replica model built as well, to extreme detail.There were amazing galleries of nautical navigational instruments.
Unfortunately most were in a very light sensitive area due to their age and photographs didn't work out. Midway through the day we walked across the street to a restaurant for lunch. McKelvies was the name and it was terrific. Highly recommended if you're in downtown Halifax.
After lunch we went back and viewed a film on whales. Then walked along the boardwalk before our parking permit was to expire. We saw a Canadian Naval vessel being towed through the narrow harbour.
A great play area for kids.
A day without the slightest hint of sun turned out to be a beautiful day. Tomorrow we cross to the Bay of Fundy side of the lower Island. On Sat we are expecting sunshine.

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