Nova Scotia

The vicar’s house, a block away from St. George’s Church, featured garden-grown food to feed his 10 children in the 1790s. He and his wife, Thankful, were Loyalists to the King who left New Hampshire after the Revolution.

Over the entrance of the church in Sydney, NS, Saint George finishes off a green “English” dragon. Do they turn red when fully grown?

A short walk from our cruise ship in Sydney, Nova Scotia took us to St. George’s Anglican Church, the oldest church on Cape Breton Island. The wooden ceiling dates from 1785, and the “Queen Mum” worshipped here in the 1960s.

If you maintain a lighthouse on an island in Halifax’ harbor, wouldn’t you want to commute by helicopter?

One of the angular buildings on the Halifax waterfront looked like an M.C. Escher print.

Halifax boasts a variety of building styles in its walkable downtown. At the top of the hill is the Citadel, a British fort full of re-enactors from the 1860’s and great views.

This bright-eyed beauty was “walked” around the Halifax waterfront to scare away the seagulls. An effective deterrent without ever leaving the falconers’s glove.

We walked along the harbor boardwalk to the Maritime Museum in Halifax, where everything from tiny dinghy’s to “Titanic” relics and stories can be found.