Waterfront walk

The downtown waterfront is a popular walk for tourists. Here is some of what they would see today (especially if they took photos with their cell phones as I did.).

The major attraction on the waterfront is the Maritime Museum of  the Atlantic. At its dock is the CCS Acadia, joined to today by Bluenose II

 While most of the Museum's artifacts are indoors, there is a collection of ironmongery outside, including a very distinctive Trotman type anchor (lower left in the photo).



At the pillot dock the boat Fundy Pilot has been called in from Saint John, NB as back up boat.  Built in 1983 by Gladding-Hearn in Somerset, MA it is a classic US style boat, and worked for Virginia Pilots and Boston Pilots before joining the APA fleet in 2005.

It will be backing up Nova Pilot while Scotia Pilot is in Lunenburg for repairs. The two boats were acquired from Sima Charters in Holland last year and have been in service here less than year. They are water jet propelled former crew boats from Rotterdam, built in 2010 and 2012.


At Bishop's Landing and Tall Ship's Quay the herring seiners that had been held in port all week by weather were getting ready to sail.

Morning Star left, Lady Melissa centre, Sealife II right. A fourth boat, Tasha Marie had already sailed when I happened by. They were finding herring about 40 miiles east of Halifax last week.

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