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sky trial


„Vegetarian“ is just an old indian word for „Bad Hunter“

In cape breton national park the mooses are even save from those vegetarians. For that reason they still rest in the gras when tourists are going to shoot „selfies“ with them. We where lucky because otherwise we might not have discovered them in that position in the woods. Eventually not only the mooses were yawning due to boredom and after all humens had moved away we alone witnessed the moment when they got up to their full size. By the way: even a moose uses the manmade trails instead of stalking through the scrubs- that´s convenience for wildlife.

Der boardwalk on the ridge of the skyline trail was said to be „breathtaking“, but we think especially when you have enough overweight. The view was fabulous but the broad walk seemed to be bit overdone. © b.g.

lobster to go


The delicacy „steamed lobster from nova scotia“ lit on a styrofoam container together with a plastic fork and a plastic knife. Just so „lobster to go“. Fast food at it´s best and so it was hardly any disturbence that the plastic fork couldn´t resist the requirements and soon all the fork teeth were pointing in  different directions.

You will find „natures catch take-out“ on the highway #7 close to the village tangier.

By the way, for dinner the remains of the lobster went into the spaghettis and then the location was befitting it´s social status. © n.g.

 

tide


Today it´s sunday so i take it easy and let wikipedia explain the phaenomenon of the tides in the bay of fundy. They do it better anyhow…

„In those tibutaries the water rises extremly and the tides can rise as musch as 16meters under normal conditions and it could reach 21 meters during king tides. That´s the highest tide difference in the word. This tidal amplitude occurs from a distinctive resonance phenomenon. The total lengh of the bay is roughly the distance  a waterwave travels during a „halftide“ (ca. 6 hours) with each incoming tide from the atlantic ocean the tidal wave wich goes in and out oft he bay gets synchron amplified. A sililar effect can be generated in a filled bath tube if a back an forth swashing wave gets escalated in strict time.“

100 billion tons of water pour in and off  the bay twice each day, that´s more water than all the freshwater rivers combined on earth. Amazing! © n.g.

humpback whales


we asked our selves: what income might the poeple of digby neck have? The answer: lobster and scallops fishing and the whale-watching tourism. Whales next to us, that was a promise which we wanted to check out. We drove with a zodiac (a rubber dighy with a powerful outboard engine) into the bay of fundy and we were lucky. Just after 30 minutes of driving our skipper discovered the first whales. He stopped the engine, now floating and let the whales come closer. There were three adult humpbacks in the size of 12 to 15 meters. The boat wasn´t very impressive for them, they were already habituated. The small rubber boat doesn´t bite and if, their 25 to 30 tons were a weighty argument. By the way, humpbacks are very  communicative and with 190 decibel not easy to miss hearing them. The group of three were snoozing, submerged from time to time and then one ot them said with a huge jump „good bye“  to its buddies. In this moment I should`t had swapped lenses. © n.g.

balancing rock


A nice walkway goes tot he phenomenal balancing rock  on long island / digby’s neck who is approximately four feet wide and twenty feet tall. A wonderful quirk of nature, this immense baslt column stands alone after many like it have drippes back into the sea and the earth.

Now I will be a wisenheimer:

Roughly 200 million years ago nove scotia was located in the interior of super-continent, pangea. And in the triassic period movements begun to crack up pangea into north- and sputh america, africa and the atlantic ocean.

Well, this was written on an information board close to the „balancing rock“

…. and eurasia, india and australia was attached to this continent as well. © n.g.

hitchBOT


What an awesome idea! A robot who hitchhikes through canada, by itself. 6125 km from halifax to victoria. An art project which will show if robots can trust humans and by the way: for humans it´s forbitten to hitchhike in canada! The idea was born by frauke zeller und david harris smith, they are the „parents“ of hitchBOT. It sits beside the road and wafes his swim-noodle-arms, the swim noodle legs stick in rubber boots, the head is a cheese dome with winking digital eyes. From time to time it talks, takes automatically pictures of its journey, is connected with faebook and twitter and sends its gps position. Its parents look forward to many adventures und that it will be charged regularily on cigarette lighters or it´s allowed to stay overnight with its host family if the weather gets too nasty to hitch.

I had heared about this project weeks ago in germany but the probability to meet this guy wasn´t very big. A girl friend of mine sent us a message to halifax that hichBot will be launched on the 27.th of july, the same day and the same place where we started our trip. David quickly replied my mail and so hitchBOT got a special ride in our truck. During load and unload it at the pier of halifax crowds of people gathered together and everbody had heard about hitchBOT in the press and they all were very excited. Great, this project was present wordwide in the media even before it was on it´s way.

We wish hitchBot a save hike and we will report its adventures. © n.g.

norman veinott


If you come by chance to pleasantwille close to lunenburg / nova scotia than you should visit norman and decide it it´s art or if it´s to put away (that´s a german phrase). Since 30 years norman melts old and used parts from cars to create his objects. This was the only information with wich reticent norman provides me. Do you want to have morman´s mail address? Nil report, norman hasn´t such things. Send a message to me and i will send his phone number. And norman is – according to his business card – in duty for 25 hours a day. © n.g.