The exposed edges of the forests surrounding #Louisbourg suffered some fairly impressive damage from #HurricaneFiona, especially compared to the, like, 2 trees that were dropped in my neighbourhood. Here are a few examples from the lookoff at Lighthouse Point. In general, the place looked like a drunken forestry accident had taken place (but smelled absolutely divine!) It was pretty shocking.
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Across the harbour from Lighthouse Point sits the reconstructed remains of the French #FortressLouisbourg. Built in the 1710s (and still under construction at the time of its first capture by the British in 1745) to guard the Saint Lawrence Seaway and New France, it is, today, a major tourist site in #CapeBreton operated by the Government of #Canada. During the summer, it's staffed by historical reenactors who will interact with visitors and give tours of various parts of the site.
I was down home in #CapeBreton for #Thanksgiving this past weekend, and took the opportunity to visit Lighthouse Point in #Louisbourg. It's been almost 20 years since I was last there -- I don't know how I let that happen -- and it looks just as I remember it, save for the considerable damage #HurricaneFiona caused to the trees in the area. The place is truly stunning.
I took 100s of #photos while there, but my composition sills are utter crap, and most didn't turn out. Almost none captured even a fraction of the splendor of the vista. I am happy with a handful of shots, though, such as this one of the Louisbourg #Lighthouse.
This building is the 3rd to sit on this location. It was built in the 1920s, following the destruction of the 2nd in a fire. The first -- the foundation of which can be seen at the foot of the current -- was built in the 1750s to service the French Fortress Louisbourg. It was the first lighthouse built in #Canada, at least by people of European descent.
More pictures of the tree that got ripped up on the walking trail behind my house. This is, by far, the most impressive piece of weather-related damage I've personally seen after sitting through two hurricanes in this neighbourhood.
Horrendous picture of me showing off my pandemic weight gain for scale.
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As aide and utility crews continue to try and get Floridians the resources and services they need in the wake of hurricane Ian, Atlantic #Canada is wrapping up immediate recovery efforts from hurricane Fiona. There's a long road ahead for people who had their roofs ripped off, their apartments collapse, and -- for some especially unlucky folks -- their homes washed out to sea.
My neighbourhood fared surprisingly well, considering how treed it is. These were some of the worst of what I saw walking around on the afternoon after the storm.
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I was out at Herring Cove the other day in the hopes of finding something interesting to shoot at #sunset. To my luck, we got a lot of pinkness that evening! Here we can see the Maugher Beach #lighthouse on McNabs Island, in the middle of the mouth of #Halifax Harbour, shining away. Moments earlier, the lighthouse was photo-bombed by a visiting cruise ship as it passed by, continuing its ocean voyage.
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We had a late afternoon thunder storm roll past us unexpectedly a few days ago (I mean, it was forecast, but it showed up early and suddenly -- from clear skies to brooding clouds in the spawn of a few minutes). I tried to get some pictures of lightning, but I couldn't find a suitable perch to get unobstructed shots. Instead, I turned to the clouds, which were putting on a pretty good show in their own right.
The attached photos are all fairly abstract, but are showing the interplay of cloud layers and sunlight coming from an altitude of about 35 degrees.
Baseball diamond + sunny summer day + wide angle lens. What's not to love?
Ok, so, strictly speaking it's a softball field, but I grew up playing little league on these, so they'll always be baseball fields to me.
Old Man's Beard is a lichen that grows on the bark and branches of trees. Like all lichen, it is a symbiotic organism, made up of a union between fungi and algae.
I saw this all over trees at the beach this weekend. It covered dead or dying branches, to the point where some trees looked like they were the native leaves. At the time, I thought that the lichen was killing the trees, but apparently that's not so -- lichen grow on trees where branches have already begun dying, as the defrocked parts of the tree allow for the lichen to receive more sunlight.
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