| Around the general
area
Coastline
Old railway walk from Barrington
Passage
Shoreline near Barrington Passage
Hospitality and warmth
Crows Neck Beach - mile long beach
- you can kayak to here from the house. It's a good five minutes
drive. The water is strangely warm for swimming.
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Here in Upper Port La
Tour we live along what is locally termed the “Lighthouse Route”,
since it is a route that links together a number of lighthouses
strewn along the South Shore of Nova Scotia
Anyway,
I’m thankful that we are not placed next to the
lighthouse at present, for on our last visit two years
ago, on a foggy day, we visited Baccaro Point to walk on
the beach and pick our way around the giant stones that
spill over the sands – and found the stentorian hooting
of the blinking lighthouse quite deafening as we got
closer to it. There was even a warning notice, saying
that approaching the lighthouse beyond “this point”
could lead to permanent damage to hearing! Well, on a
foggy morning early last week, still lying in bed, I was
pleased to hear the mournful hoots of the lighthouse in
the distance, mellow and only just detectable.
Baccaro
Lighthouse
Baccaro Lighthouse - our house used
to stand to the left of it until it was moved to its present place
at 104 Seal Point. It's an amazing place when a storm is up.
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Sandhills beach - fifteen minutes
drive. Great for small children since it is shallow for ages when
the tide is in.
  
Main road from Halifax.
Watch out for pumpkin people in autumn! People here just love to
celebrate.
A
very sweet employee in the builders’ section of Wilson’s Shopping
Centre helped me choose the skirting boards, preventing me from
buying expensive planks in error. The staff in most of the big
stores are incredibly helpful and seek out anyone who looks a little
lost
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Shelburn.
Wonderfully pretty historic town about 40 mins away in car.
Shelburne looks like a film set with its array of
colourful and picturesque painted wooden houses with
gables and pitched roofs – indeed, it was actually used
as a film set since The Scarlet Letter was filmed there
(and in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia) in 1995. Most of
Shelburne's buildings date back to Loyalist times and
being there indeed felt like being in a time warp |
Just walking down the road
Crab, star fish and lobster caught
close by on boat below
Coming to collect us from our wharf
to take us for a lobster fishing experience
© 104 Seal Poin |
