Last Days in Dartmouth

Our favorite thing to do in Dartmouth is take the pedestrian ferry over to downtown Halifax.

Heading over to Halifax harbour

Here's another ferry returning to Dartmouth.

Those are all new highrises going up along the Dartmouth shore.

We walked along the waterfront, redeveloped for tourists.

You can take a cruise on the tall ship Silva.

There's lots of opportunity to stick your head through things for photo ops!6

Closeup:

Another:

This one is an ad for the Maud Lewis exhibit at the Art Museum of Nova Scotia.

How'd she get in the picture?

The next day we walked to Birch Cove on Lake Banook where used to take swimming lessons when he was a kid.

Some little girls were getting ready for swimming lessons when we arrived!

We also walked by a house that had filled their front garden with ceramic mushrooms.

Later Cathy and Heather came in from Chester Basin and we all went out for deep-fried clams. THE place to go for fried seafood in Dartmouth is John's Lunch, but it was closed, so we went to its sister establishment the Pleasant Street Diner, just down the road, run by the same family.

Mmmm, deep fried whole fresh clams. Not to be confused with clam stories.

And that concludes our trip to Nova Scotia and Newfoundland.  We caught our flight back home early the next day and arrived in Vancouver at 10:30 am, then drove home the same day.