Fantasy RV Caravan - Day 16

Saturday, 17 August - Day 16

With the first caravan scheduled event being lunch, we enjoyed a very lazy morning.  Not enough time to squeeze in golf, so we enjoyed the better-than-normal campground WiFi while we leisurely approached breakfast.  And pretty slow morning until 11am, when six of is piled into Doug’s Jeep to drive to the Prince George Hotel in downtown Halifax for lunch.  Sprinty had the day off.

After finding parking, we arrived at the hotel to find some of our caravan mates arrived before us.  Lunch was buffett-style, chicken or fish.  Quite nice.

After lunch, the six of us (Doug, Jan, Bill, Lyn and us) walked to the Halifax waterfront.  We passed by a Navy Memorial, and I was asked to pose in front of the memorial.


At the pier was the HMCS Sackville, the last of the Corvettes.  Corvettes were a small escort ship built for World War II.  It was a self-guided tour.  Admission was free, but donations were requested.  



Across the pier from the HMCS Sackville was the Silva, a Tall Ship, that was getting ready to take a wedding party out.




After the ship visit, we wandered the waterfront area for a couple of hours.  As Doug said, it was nice to be doing it on a Saturday with good weather - there were lots of people doing the same thing.


One of the exhibits on the boardwalk was the history of the world’s largest man-made explosion before Hiroshima in 1945.  A French munitions ship collided with another ship and the munitions exploded, killing 2,000 people and leaving neighborhoods destroyed.



We wound up wandering for a few hours.  After we had walked to both ends of the waterfront walk, we stopped at a waterfront restaurant to get a table on the water for beverages.  We enjoyed watching the people and boats go by.


As we started to meander back to where the Jeep was parked, we stopped by a shop where Bill got a new hat.  Near the door was a map asking people to put a pin in the map of where they were from.  The map was a reminder of the diversity of visitors to Halifax.  We did not put a pin in as there was no room in that part of the map for another pin.



The evening was spent at the campground.  After dinner, we joined folks celebrating George and Bonnie’s 56th wedding anniversary until the mosquitoes chased us back into our rigs.

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