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By coppertop1204
September 10th 2008

Hopewell, Enrage and a Town Named for Charlotte

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Flowerpot Rocks at High Tide
This was taken from top of the 4 story stairway

Low tide was at 11:00 a.m. this morning which gave us a 5 hour window of opportunity to walk on the ocean floor. We were going to Hopewell Cape, home of the Flowerpot Rocks. The tides in Canada's Bay of Fundy are the most extreme in the world. Because of the unique shape of the bay, the difference in water level between high tide and low tide can be as much as 48 feet. The Flowerpot Rocks are formed of sandstone and a conglomerate of sand and small rocks. If you look up close it looks like you could take these [View Full Entry]

By JennLynn
August 4th 2008

The Beginning

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Hello! I dont know who I am saying HI to really, but whatever. So... I am starting a blog to keep me on track. To prevent me from buying that pair of shoes or new jeans while I am trying to save money. I am living in Canada right now, not really much going on in my life... I want to go back to school (again) but not just yet, and I dont have an important job or a boyfriend, so going to Europe for a while seems fitting. I am 22 years old, will be 23 in nov. I have [View Full Entry]

By Cross Canada 07
May 29th 2007

Prince Edward Island

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Welcome to PEI
Wood Islands Lighthouse

PEI!! We love you!!! We arrived in PEI after cycling 81 kms to get to the ferry. We had planned to find a nice place to camp on the other side of the water in PEI and call it a day until we arrived there...it was warm, breeze-less, hill-less, green; it was absolutely amazing and had Brad and I wondering how a 70 minute ferry ride could bring us from a grey fisherman's land to lush green paradise!! We were so pumped we eneded up cycling another 36 km before arriving in Orwell. Orwell is a little historic town that [View Full Entry]

By The Maple moon
May 24th 2007

Anne Shirley and lobsters

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After the bus journey from Halifax to PEI, we've now decided that it's a rubbish way to travel and should not be encouraged. It had been cold in Halifax but we were still unprepared for snow the first evening in Charlottetown! And there wasn't even a cup of 'steeped tea' to be had to warm us up. Steeped tea by the way is the 'new' thing to have chez Tim Horton's (a cross between a healthy McDonalds and a baker's). In essence it's tea that has been left in the pot for too long but presumably is being sold in litres [View Full Entry]

By EllaBellaOla
January 1st 2007

First Blog Entry

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Hey everyone! Welcome to my blog - this will be a short one. I'm half-way through my first year at Dalhousie Medical School. Its everything you would expect - interesting, intense, occassionally overwhelming, and much more! I completed my first elective in Anaesthesia and got to witness so many amazing surgeries - mostly heart surgeries, everything from quadruple bipasses to valve replacements, but also some cosmetic surgeries, including face lift, breast implant & reconstruction, eyelid lift/chin tuck and jaw reconstruction. All of these were way more invasive than I had expected, its ama [View Full Entry]

By LeighSwenson
July 17th 2006

Happy Reunions on the East Coast

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Green Meets Red Meets Blue

Had we known it was such a long drive from Halifax airport to Charlottetown we would never have dreamed of asking our friend Mitch to drive up to meet us and chauffeur us back down. After almost an hour and a half in the car I enquired as to how much further it was to Charlettetown and Mitch replied we were almost half way there. "Yeah, right! When are we really gonna be there?" I scoffed. "No, really. We're about half way there." "Your kidding?" "No, I'm not." He wasn't. Well, we'd look on the map and there'd barely been an [View Full Entry]

By Bothan Taistil
June 19th 2006

Bob Finds a Brewery

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On tap at Gahan Brewery
Bob left a rolling Rock and a Iron City can which they put on the shelf behind the bar. so it you are ever here tell them you know the clown that left them

June 19, 2006 This is an organization day, with this many days of the road it is time to clean the Bothan, shop, etc. We got to the Art Museum in the PM, a small but interesting collection. We discovered the Gahan House Brewery and, of course, had a sample. Tonight is the premier performance of Anne of Green Gables. Although most of the seats were sold out, we managed to get two balcony seats. Bob was a good sport, with his long legs bent up he managed to get through the performance, I just had to unpretzel him at the [View Full Entry]

The Gahan Brewery, right next to the Basilica

By Bothan Taistil
June 18th 2006

Where Canada Began

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Harbour Hippo, Charlottetown, PEI

Up early and on our bike over the bridge to Charlottetown we go. The Basilica of St. Dunstan had an 8:30 mass, which we attended. The basilica is known for twin gothic spires, and impressive altar and fine Italian murals. The atmosphere was formal and conservative, oh well. Charlottetown is where Canada began. In 1864 the colonial capital hosted a Charlottetown Conference, which led to the establishment of the Dominion of Canada. We visited Province House National Historic Site and saw a video recounting the conference of 1864. Charlottetown is the largest city on Prince Edward Island [View Full Entry]

View from Harbour Hippo on the Hillsboro River

By Bothan Taistil
June 17th 2006

Enjoying PEI

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Red Point Provincial Park

We were up early and took a long walk along the beach before breakfast. Each beach seems to have unique features, this one has less rocks and more white sand, with the red cliffs as a backdrop and then lush green fields, just lovely. We returned to Souris harbor to see a huge sailboat that came in yesterday. It is from NJ and is used to teach women sailing skills and teamwork. While checking out the marina we noticed a ferry coming in from Madeleine. We decided to check out what is at Madeleine and is it worth a trip? Georgetown [View Full Entry]

By Bon Bon on the Go Go
October 6th 2005

Onto a new province...PEI

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Let the drinking begin...
HAHA

Leaving Cape Breton Bell, amazing inventor Off to PEI. We had a pretty slow start this morning since Carman had to set off and get some much needed petrol before we could head off on our travels. But it's a pretty easy going day today compared to the activities of yesterday. Once we were back in business we headed off to the Alexander Graham Bell Museum. Bell is well known and credited with the invention of the phone but I didn't know what other amazing and wonderful things he also did. He actually was very interested in sound/hearing and worked at [View Full Entry]

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