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Hi!
Will you please include this in a mailing.
Thanks!
Kathy Brown CSPWC
Watercolour Painter, Halifax, NS
kathy@fromthesea.ca
www.fromthesea.ca
Website Content Editor
Nova Scotia Lighthouse Preservation Society
www.nslps.com
Board Member World Lighthouse Society
Member, Architecture Work Committee
http://www.worldlighthouses.org/
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NSLPS Trips, Summer 2005
ON THE WATER TOURS OF HALIFAX HARBOUR LIGHTHOUSES
Saturdays: July 30, August 27, and September 24
Depart Purcell's Cove Marina, 521 Purcell's Cove Road at 9 AM
Return at approximately 4 PM
See the Lighthouses of Halifax Harbour and Approaches close up, aboard the Sea Tiger, a
Canadian Coast Guard approved 42-foot Cape Islander. Get an on-the-water view of Halifax'
magnificent harbour. NSLPS guides will tell you about the lighthouses: Maugher Beach (on
McNabs Island), Chebucto Head, Sambro, Devils Island, and Georges Island. There will be a trip
ashore on Sambro Island, to get a close look at the lighthouse had have lunch (weather
permitting). Please wear appropriate clothing and footwear.
Cost- $50 per person - lunch and refreshments included.
A portion of the trip fee will be donated to the NSLPS.
Registration is required.
Call George Hebb, 4776537
TUSKET ISLANDS CRUISE AND LOBSTER DINNER
Saturday, July 16
SPECIAL VISIT TO CAPE FORCHU
Sunday, July 17
Leave Wedgeport at 12:30 PM and cruise through the natural beauty of the Tusket islands past
wharves, fish stages and fish houses. Learn the history of how the islands have been used by may
generations of lobster fisherman, See three lighthouses: Big Fish, Pease Island and Candlebox
Island. Enjoy a lobster dinner on one of the islands. The Captain will share his knowledge of the
islands and an NSLPS guide will be along to tell you about the lighthouses.'
On Sunday morning you will be specially greeted at Cape Forchu Lighthouse, Yarmouth,
for a visit, tea, coffee, and muffins. As well, people at the newly restored Seal Island Light
Museum in Barrington, will be expecting you For a visit in the afternoon. (Completion of repairs
permitting.)
Cost $60.00 including lobster dinner
To register call Dorothy MacLeod, 423-8034
A TRIP TO ROCKBOUND - EAST IRONBOUND ISLAND
Saturday, Aug. 13
Leave Lunenburg Waterfront at 1:00 PM. Return about 6:00 PM
Enjoy a scenic ocean trip on a big Canadian Coast Guard approved "Cape Islander" charter boat,
going out Lunenburg Bay, birthplace of the Bluenose, and around into beautiful Mahone Bay. Visit
the setting for the novel "Rockbound,"by Frank Parker Day, which won the CBC "Canada Reads"
Contest in March 2005. Author Donna Morrissey, who chose this book as her nomination and
shepherded it through to a win, will be along as a guest of NSLPS.
On this trip you will pass Battery Point Breakwater Lighthouse in Lunenburg Harbour, and
Cross Island Lighthouse, with a view of Pearl Island Lighthouse offshore (visibility permitting).
Land on East Ironbound to view the lighthouse where the tower rises from the roof at the front of
a small dwelling and visit the school house. Take a walk around this scenic island at the mouth of
Mahone Bay. An NSLPS guide will tell you about the history of the lighthouses.
Most of the island is privately owned and it is difficult to access, so this is an unique
opportunity. This is a special offering for this summer and it is sure to be popular, so register
quickly.
You
No children under 12 years of age.
Cost $40.00
To register call Dorothy MacLeod, (902) 423-8034
ISLE HAUTE, IN THE BAY OF FUNDY
Sept 10, weather date Sept. 24
This is an all-day boat trip out of Harbourville on the Bay of Fundy
Ile Haute lies off Cape Chignecto. Often shrouded in mist, it has the reputation of disappearing by
times! Dan Conlin, Curator of Marine History, Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, an expert on the
history of the island, and Tony Thompson, Past-President of NSLPS will lead this unusual trip.
This an opportunity not to be missed! It is a fairly strenuous outing (getting on and off the boat via
a Zodiac, and hiking up to the lighthouse site). Take sensible clothing (especially footwear), food,
and adequate water.
Arrangements are still being made for this trip. Registration will be required. Cost at least $50.00
per person.
No children under 12 years of age.
For further details and to register contact Tony Thompson, 477-7366, or e-mail:
Tony.Thompson@dal.ca
Trip is limited to 20 persons.
Register with Tony as soon as possible. We expect this trip to fill quickly.
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