Travelog post for: Schweinchen

Hurray! Guess what! I have finally visited the seaside! I'm getting ahead of myself though. Lets start at the beginning:

After I woke up this morning I wandered outside and saw something that I haven't seen in a long time!



The sun!
I sunbathed a while on this bench while Ren got dressed. So Nice!



Then I helped Ren cut up her pineapple for breakfast!







I think more pineapple ended up in our stomachs than in the bowl!



After that Ren put me into the car and told me we were going to a surprise place! How exciting!

We drove to a very busy part of Halifax.





(Look at the old church standing beside a new office tower!)



We stopped at a place called The Public Gardens. It's a beautiful gated garden in the middle of downtown.

Here's me with one of the swans:



There was also lots and lots of ducks!



The Pigeons were too busy eating to pose with me! I enjoyed watching them though!



And I sat and talked a while with this nice lady. (See me by her feet?) She didn't talk back!



At least she posed with me!



This building is the main focus of the garden. I guess that bands play in there sometimes but today it was empty.



Ooh! This looks interesting!



Another silent lady!



Unfortunately it was getting too late so we didn't get to explore all of the gardens today. Maybe I'll get to come back one day. There was time for a few more fountain pictures at the exit!





So it was back into the car again!



Hmmmm.... I wonder what this place is?



It's a historic site! In the old days when people from Europe immigrated to Canada this is where the boats arrived!



Then they boarded rail cars like this one that took them all over Canada.



I read all about it here:









(This one you can actually read!)


We went inside but there wasn't much to see. A lot of the building was locked off because there are no events happening there right now. I did see something great in there though! The view from the windows! Look! It's the ocean!



There was even a sail boat out blowing around!



And look at that! A Big One!



We left Pier 21 and drove to a nearby park so that I could have a better view of the water. Even though it was hot everywhere else, on the beach it was chilly and very windy!






By then it was about time to have something sweet again!



It's never to chilly for ice cream!



Hey! The big sailing boat is back!



Ren and I decided to run down the path to see if we could get closer.



But it always looks the same distance away!



Oh Oh. We lost it!



I sat down to catch my breath on these rocks and found an oyster shell!



Hmmmm... What's this?



It's a monument to sailors that have died. (I'm really tired from walking up the big hill!)



Let's get a better look. Hey what's that in the background?



The sail boat is back! I guess this is as close as we will get to it today!



I feel like a mermaid!



We decided to walk up into the trees to get away from the wind.



The sail boat was peeking at us from between the trees!



This is an interesting shaped tree.



These dead trees were caused by a bad hurricane that swept past a few years ago. Many of the big trees in this part were destroyed. =(



There's the sail boat again!



We have hiked very high up now.



From here you can sort of see some of the giant crates of stuff waiting to be imported and exported.



What's this? A hidden wall? This whole hill is part of an old fortress that used to protect Halifax!



I also found this hidden door! I wonder what's in it!



I'm a little afraid to go inside at first!



It's some kind of hidden look out spot!



This is the view from the other side.



I've decided that I want to protect Halifax from this place too! I even have my own hidden window! Can you see me?



No silly sail boats are going to get past me!



I'll blast them all away with my canon!



FIRE!!!



Yep! I've scared the ships away! Success!



After all that defending I was exhausted so I spent the rest of the day sleeping in Ren's bag. What an exciting day! I think that I will be dreaming of the sea side tonight!

Bye for now!

-Schweinchen