Dancing Surf

Trillium

Sunset Over Looking The Bay

Rough Seas In May

Taken May 29 2010

Apple Blossom

Here is wishing everyone a happy Apple Blossom Festival this weekend !!!!!!!

Some More History on The Harbour

BAXTER’S HARBOUR

This rural area is located on the south side of the Minas Channel in central Nova Scotia. It was names for Dr. William Baxter or his son, John B. Baxter, who were early settlers in the early 19th century. Possibly the harbour was frequented by fisherman in 1780 or earlier. Dr. Baxter bought land on the north mountain from David Eaton about 1803.
Jonathan Margeson was a schoolmaster here in 1834. A school-house was built in 1869. A new school was built in 1906 but it burned down and was replaced with a new building in 1939. A way office was established October 1, 1873 with John Baxter as postmaster.
Fishing and limited farming are the main occupations.
Population in 1956 was 112.

A Ship Build In Kingport , Nova Scotia 1882[ Kambira]

Built in 1882 at Kingsport, NS by Peter R. Creighton. Registered at Windsor, NS, registration no. 10, 1882; owned by C.R. Burgess and others. Abandoned at sea 18 May 1904.
Artist: unsigned

Found this in the Nova Scotia Archieves.

Baxter's Harbour At Dusk

This I believe is one of my favorite photos of the harbour so far . It was taken May 26 2010.

Beauty Of The Bay

The ocean mist
The highest tides
Sea gulls screeching
Waves crash, sea foam lies.

The Bay is like a mirror today
Reflecting the beauty of the clouds
Blue skies, blue water
The sound of the Bay , there is no other

May the Bay always hold its beauty
For others to enjoy
To let the waves crash freely
An to admire a sunset from its shores.

I wrote this poem the other day as the clouds were reflecting on the Bay. The beauty of mother nature we should just stop for a minute and enjoy it.
Beachcomber....

Plane view of Cape Split, Nova Scotia, Canada

This is aerial view of Cape Split which is surrounded by the Bay of Fundy

Trillium

A Window To A Sunset

Back To Work After Close Call

Lobster fisherman Mark Taylor tends traps at the Halls Harbour wharf Tuesday, one day after being dramatically rescued from his sinking boat off Cape Split. (GORDON DELANEY / Valley Bureau)
This news article was in the Chronicle Herald May 12. 2010. It truly represents the power of the Bay of Fundy

HALLS HARBOUR — It’s all in a day’s work for lobster fisherman Mark Taylor.
Taylor, 47, headed back to sea Tuesday, one day after he and two crewmen were dramatically plucked from their sinking fishing boat by a search and rescue helicopter from 14 Wing Greenwood.
"We’re going back out today," he said in an interview while preparing equipment at the Halls Harbour wharf early Tuesday morning.
How’s he feeling about it?
"Pretty good," he replied briskly. "That’s just the way it is. When you’ve been fishing for 30 years, you’re bound to get your feet wet once in a while."
In fact, Monday’s rescue was the second time he has gotten his feet wet while fishing along the rugged Bay of Fundy coast. In 1996, he managed to escape another sinking fishing boat.
Taylor and his crew, Dave Clarke and Roy Sollows, had just set their traps about two kilometres from Cape Split, Monday, when his 11-metre wooden boat, the Eric and Junior III, began taking on water.
"It was a mechanical failure of some sort. I don’t know for sure, but a cooling pipe or something broke off," he said.
"Once the water fills up in the engine room you can’t get it clear, you can’t see down there when it’s full of water and sloshing around," Taylor added.
"When it comes in that fast you just have to get ready to get off," he said. "The pump couldn’t keep up and within 10 or 15 minutes the engine room was full."
The three men radioed for help, donned their survival suits and prepared their life-raft.
Taylor said there were several other fishing boats in the area, including one skippered by his brother, who turned around and was heading back towards the disabled boat.
The Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre in Halifax dispatched an auxiliary coast guard vessel and a search and rescue helicopter from 14 Wing Greenwood. There was also a Hercules transport aircraft conducting training exercises in the area.
The three men were hoisted from the sinking vessel by the Cormorant crew and minutes later the boat capsized and quickly disappeared under the waves. "She went under just after we got off," said Taylor.
The seas weren’t particularly rough Monday, but the area around Cape Split is hazardous because of the shifting tides. "It’s hard to say where the boat hit bottom," Taylor said.
"Once that Cape Split tide hits, it would drag it along the bottom for miles."
Taylor, who owns a scallop boat and leases three lobster boats, said he had no reservations about heading back to sea. He already has a replacement lobster vessel on its way from Yarmouth.
"It was a close call," he said, but he wasn’t really nervous. "The helicopter was in sight and the other boats were in sight, so it was good that way."
Taylor had some kind words for the crew of the helicopter that rescued the three men.
"They did an excellent job. They were very professional and knew what they (were) doing. We were in pretty good hands."
Dave Clarke, one of the crewmen, said the experience was a first in his nine years of fishing. Asked how he felt about being hoisted from the boat, he replied, "I was glad to see the hoist."
He had no qualms about heading back to sea Tuesday. "Business as usual," he added.
( gdelaney@herald.ca)
‘That’s just the way it is. When you’ve been fishing for 30 years, you’re bound to get your feet wet once in a while.’
Lobster fishermanMARK TAYLOR

Woodworth Brook Falls

Sea Surf

Bleeding Heart In My Garden [ May 14 /10]

Old Photo Of Shipping Piers in Wolfville, Nova Scotia

I just had to post this picture of the Shipping Piers in Wolfville Nova Scotia.I loved the reflections on the water. Days gone by , I found this picture in the Nova Scotia Archives.

Helicopter Landing In My Field Last Summer

Sun Setting On The Rocks

This photo was taken in Bennett's Bay May 11 2010. Bennett's Bay is down shore from Baxter's Harbour.

Rescued In Nick Of Time

Rescued in nick of time
Lobster boat sinks off Cape Split minutes after helicopter plucks three fishermen from danger
By GORDON DELANEY Valley Bureau
Tue. May 11 - 5:23 AM


The crew of a Cormorant helicopter rescues three lobster fishermen from the Eric and Junior III on Monday morning in Scots Bay, Kings County. (Photos by 14 Wing Greenwood)




The Eric and Junior III goes over on her side.





THREE NOVA SCOTIA lobster fishermen are lucky to be alive after their boat sank Monday morning in Scots Bay, near Cape Split, Kings County.

The emergency call came in to the Joint Rescue Co­ordination Centre in Halifax at about 9:40 a.m., centre spokeswoman Jeri Grychowski said in an interview.

The crew radioed for help when the Eric and Junior III, registered in Port La Tour, Shelburne County, but based in Halls Harbour, began taking on water, she said.

A Canadian Coast Guard auxiliary vessel and a Cormo­rant search and rescue helicopter from Greenwood were dispatched.

“There were a number of other vessels in the area, but the Cormorant was able to pick the people up," said Gry­chowski. “The vessel was taking on water when the three people were taken off. It all happened and was over very fast.’’

The 11-metre wooden lobster boat, built and registered n 1974, was skippered by Mark Taylor of Centreville, Kings Coun­ty, who also operates another lobster boat out of Halls Harbour. He could not be reached for comment Monday.

“The boat went down, but at least everybody’s safe," said Dick Killam, a Kings County councillor and resident of Halls Harbour.

“They’re OK. They landed in a field up from my place and some­one picked them up there."

He said it was a scary situation for the men.

“That’s not a good spot out there off the Split," Killam said.

“When the last person got off the boat, it was only a couple of minutes before it went down. . . .They were very lucky.

“I stopped in to see Mark around noontime and he’s doing OK, other than he’s looking for a boat now."

A Hercules aircraft from 14 Wing Greenwood was in the area conducting training exercises when the boat began sinking, said base spokesman Capt. Scott Spurr. He said the Hercules provided top cover and communications for the Cormorant helicopter. A search and rescue technician was lowered from the chopper to the deck of the sinking boat.

It was taking on water so fast, the decision was made to hoist the three fishermen from the stricken vessel to the helicopter, which was from 413 Search and Rescue Squadron, said Spurr.

The boat sank shortly after­wards. The men were shaken up but not injured and did not re­quire medical attention.

“We just happened to have a Hercules aircraft doing some routine training there, so it was nearby," said Spurr.

“There were no injuries whatso­ever."

It is not known why the boat began taking on water.

Golden Clouds Filling The Evening Sunset Sky

Roar of the Fundy

History of the Formation Of The Bay Of Fundy

This is the Bay of Fundy - then and now - and this is the story of how the Bay of Fundy come to be.
The Early Years
Between 600 and 200 million years ago (mya) continental masses drifted together - squeezing out the
original Atlantic Ocean to form the super-continent of Pangea. During this time (400 mya) the
Appalachian mountain range formed, with peaks higher than the present Rockies. The region that
included the Bay of Fundy was close to the centre of Pangea. Over time shallow seas formed and
evaporated leaving behind deposits of salt, potash and gypsum. Erosion of the Appalachians left thick
deposits that eventually cemented into rocks. Trapped within these deposits (360 mya) were plants of the
time - eventually forming fossils and beds of coal.

The Middle Years
190 million years ago Pangea was wrenched apart by forces deep within the Earth. Rift valleys
formed during this process.The Bay of Fundy is one of the rifts valleys. A major rift (the Mid
Atlantic Ridge) kept separating and the Atlantic Ocean was formed. This process continues today
with North America and Europe separating by several centimetres a year. The Bay of Fundy rift
failed to separate further. It is a "failed ocean". Volcanic and eroded material flowed into the
basins. Isle Haute is an example of the volcanic basalt that hardened at this time

The Recent Years
A number of ice ages occurred over the past two million years, with beds of ice up to two kilometres thick
scouring the landscape. The last receded only 13000 years ago exposing the present form of the Bay of
Fundy. At this time the Bay was a quiet water way - cut off from the Atlantic Ocean by Georges and
Browns Banks. Caribou and mammoths grazed on the present Georges Banks. As the sea levels
continued to rise, partly due to the melting ice, the Banks became flooded and the Bay was connected to
the sea. The giant tides were born.

Bay of Fundy Time Lapse

Sea Glass

Deer Grazing

Deer grazing in my field last Spring , with the special white one.

Boats in at Low Tide At Baxter's Harbour Wharf

This photo is one of my favorites that I have come across so far.

Sunset

Old Postcard Of Halls Harbour