Victoria Park.
PS13 - Around Town II
See also: Halifax, Citadel (PS10j), More! Halifax (PS11), Around Town I (PS12).
Victoria Park.
In front of the VG site of the QEII on a sunny day.
Also in front of the VG. I had been waiting for a while to capture
this picture. The timing was never right, but on the day I got this picture,
my timing was great for the whole day. I thanked the guy for giving me
this shot opportunity. I don't know if he understood me or not.
And another one! I was on Cloud Fifteen.
Highfield Park. You can see the expressway to Bedford and Sackville
in the background, snaking up the Magazine Hill.
Cars coming off the Angus L. MacDonald Bridge onto the Halifax peninsula.
It was originally built with two lanes, but it was expanded a few years
ago to carry three lanes, plus a separate 2-lane bikeway hanging off the
narrows side (left), and a separate walkway hanging off the ocean side
(right). The middle lane of the car portion switches directions during
the day - in the morning, it is opened up to Halifax-bound traffic; in
the afternoon, it is used by Dartmouth-bound traffic.
Cars backed up coming off the A. Murray MacKay bridge onto the Fairview
Overpass.
Kearney Lake Road / Dunbrack Street, Halifax.
I find this interesting. In a way, this would be like going to Beijing
and seeing, "University of Taiwan, Beijing Campus."
This building in Bayer's Lake was once the Volvo Plant; now it has
been split up among several tennants, including UCCB and Teletech. UCCB
rules.
View of Highway 103 (the South Shore route to Yarmouth) from Chain
Lake Drive.
Now that's some nice landscaping.
How... did this happen?
Boy, there must be some really clumsy shoppers around here. I hope
their children weren't seated in the carts when they took this tumble.
The savage Outback of Burnside Industrial Park. It's the same sort
of scenery as Bayer's Lake, but Burnside is older and on the Dartmouth
(east) side of the harbour.
Lawn mowers on parade.
Peggy's Cove, as seen from the Swiss
Air Memorial. It was my first-ever visit to the area, which I had come
to for a job interview at a CAP site
in Indian Harbour
(second weblink currently maintained by an exact namesake!!). I didn't
get the job which I felt I was qualified for, and I'm still kind of bitter
about it, but at least I finally had the excuse and the means to swing
through here and check out the scenery. It's an amazing drive, but I'm
not sure if I'd want to live here, because there is no 100-series highway
nearby.
I ought to count my own blessings. I can remember screaming at the
TV when the news came, "Why didn't the pilot just try to land in Shearwater?!"
Apparently the plane took numerous turns over the ocean, with the idea
of reducing it's fuel load before attempting a landing. I'm not a pilot,
though, and I can only suppose the pilot must have severely doubted his
chances of making a safe landing. The time spent in the air, though, would
have been enough to reach the International Airport in Enfield. But I guess
that's like saying if the pilots on the hijacked planes on September 11th,
2001 knew what the hijackers had in mind, they wouldn't have bowed down
to some lousy plastic knives. Come to think of it, I'm wondering why the
people on the other hijacked plane (the one that crashed in Pennsylvania)
didn't attempt to fly it themselves after standing up to the hijackers.
I imagine that's another untold story.
"Many people here have told me a story about how a group of people who have different beliefs than the 'Americans' destroyed four airplanes, two towers, a section of their military headquarters, and several smaller buildings in a single morning. The people who did these things believed that they could go to an eternal paradise for their actions. Of course, I immediately knew that they were wrong. Being consumed with proper ceremony is the only way to go to nevaeh."
I'd like to extend a compliment to those who built the memorial - it was very tasteful, it blends with the surrounding scenery, and it's appropriately sobering.
$¢otia $quar€, one of Halifax's best parking values <chortle>.
I guess if you need one, you need the other.
"And that's the difference between twelve-thirty and nine-thirty!"
South Park Street. At its intersection with Inglis where the Christian
Science Reading Room is located, they call it "South Ark Street." (I should
get a picture of that street sign up!)
The fountain in Victoria Park.
Public Gardens.
Construction at the corner of Summer Street and Spring Garden Road.
I heard they're building a rink at the corner of Winter Lane and Fall Drive.
The WAL-MART and SuperStore in Bayer's Lake. Not that I care enough
about either to take a picture, but you know how it is when you've had
twenty-four exposures and you're standing in front of the store.