Canadas East Coast Trip

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Canadas East Coast Trip

• Ran and Samantha
• Aug 2006

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The Route
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Statistics

• Time 14 days
• Distance 8,000km
• Fuel used 500 L
• Bugs splattered on car 43,000,000
• Provinces visited 5
• Time Zones Visited 3

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This is how we got to Newfoundland
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Not this way
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Scenery
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St. Lawrence first stop
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Worlds longest covered bridge
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Fredericton Victorian architecture
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Lunenburg world heritage site
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Moon over Lunenburg harbour
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Peggys Cove harbour
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Peggys Cove harbour
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Peggys Cove famous light house
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Theodore Tugboat in Halifax
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Tidal Bore at low tide
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St. Anns Gaelic College
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One big Fiddle in Sydney
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Falls at Gros Morne National Park
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Seaside stone tree
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Gros Morne seaside
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Sunset at Newfoundland
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Lighthouse at Rocky harbour
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Moon rising over ocean
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Sun Rising over same ocean
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Sun still rising
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Newtown fish drying stage
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Cape Spear re-enactment of French versus British
fog seemed appropriate!
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View from Cape Spears Eastern Most Point in
North America
Notice the squid eating the whale in the
background while a boat runs into the rocks.
Great view!!!
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Bona Vista Lighthouse
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Cape Ray Lighthouse
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Shitmore hills at Cape Ray
This was the best spot in the world to take a
poo. Look at this view!!!
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Cabot Trail
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View from our window on the Cabot Trail
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The Hector at Pictou
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Bay of Fundy national Park
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Three Tier Falls at Fundy National Park
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Bay of Fundy at Low Tide
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Activities
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Sailing at Lunenberg
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Magnetic Hill
Looks like the car should be rolling forward?!?!
It didnt! Just a stupid optical illusion.
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Alexander Keiths Brewery in Halifax
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Alexander Graham Bells Museum in Baddeck
With his team he designed this hydrofoil which
achieved over 100km/h speed records at Baddeck
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Sexiest Guard on Citadel Hill in Halifax
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Samantha exploring the ocean floor at low tide.
She didnt explore at high tide.
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Rans puffy hair during Zodiac ride
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Camping at Trinity bay Lighthouse. We were blown
away by the beauty and wind.
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Skipping Stones
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Samantha captured by pirates. She was later
released.
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Wildlife
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Bald Eagle
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Moose
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Girl Moose
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Alf
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Gannet
Spectacular flyer that dives at fish from great
heights (30 m). Fills its feathers with air to
reduce the impact with the water. When they dive
in sequence a series of splashes makes it looks
like carpet bombing.
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Lobster
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Porpoises
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Jellyfish
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Kittiwake
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Pilot Whales
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Pilot Whales
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Puffin
These cute little guys look like flying penguins.
They are as agile as a hippo on a pogo stick, and
stay aloft due to continuous flapping not
aerodynamics.
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Cormorants
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Bald eagle (adolescent)
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Bald eagle (adolescent) chasing hawk
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Bald Eagle on perch
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Plants
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Pitcher Plant
Lives symbiotically with larvae. It provides the
water filled pitchers in which the larvae live
and hunt insects. The plant is provided with
vitamins and nutrients.
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Mushrooms
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Geology
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Pillow Lava
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Big stone collection
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Table Flats
The mantle of the earth is visible here no
crust covering it. From this region the idea of
tectonic plates arose.
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Ocean arch
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Bay of Fundy

• Worlds largest tides 14 m

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Hopewell Rocks also known as the Flower Pots
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Low Tide
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High Tide
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Low Tide
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High Tide
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The End