Lighthouse in Pubnico Harbour, Nova Scotia 04_shoreline

Lighthouse in Pubnico Harbour, Nova Scotia

July 25th 2018
We headed out this morning in search of a few lighthouses on the southeast coast. It was a fairly long drive (about 235 miles round trip), so we had scheduled only a few. The first one required us to walk out the rocky shoreline to get a good photo. The skies were cloudy, the breeze off the ocean was cool and the fog rolled all over the harbor. This lighthouse sets on the edge of Pubnico Harbo ... read more

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28th July 2018

Cyn
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Lighthouse Pubnico - Photo 04
Lighthouse Pubnico, picture 04 did you put the small rocks on top of other like that? That for sure was human done :-) The fog looked really think in that one picture - reminds me of movie "The Fog"

5th August 2018

debgen
Debbie Braden Autery

Rocks
You see these stacks all over the place. There is a actually a whole story about these rock-stackings. A cairn, the official term for deliberately stacking rocks, is a mound of stones built as a memorial or landmark. It seems that most no longer have this meaning and there are actually "movements" out there that are asking people to leave the stones alone! LOL. We have seem them in many of our travels. Not sure which ones are actual memorials and which are people just stacking rocks.

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