We’ve had quite a long cold snap, and the ocean ice in and near our inlet is way over 6 inches thickness, the recommended thickness for safety. Beautifully smooth too, in places, though the wind chill discouraged us from going back for our skates.
At low tide, the ice is sitting on or near the bottom, [...]
Some new photos added: I was very pleased with the photo of the church in the Grand Pre National Historic Site that commemorates the expulsion of the Acadian settlers of Nova Scotia by the British in 1755. There is also a moving set of bronze statues of an Acadian family that makes you wonder if [...]
Got some serious cash and top-notch sailing skills? Want to sail the Southern Ocean in a very fast, well-equipped boat with an experienced skipper, take her round Cape Horn and up the South and North Atlantic to France? Does Derek Hatfield have an opportunity for you!
Stranded in Tasmania after broken spreaders on the Open 60, [...]
After yesterday’s grand celebrations in Washington, and us watching on TV with much of the rest of the world, the ice and the sea were still there this cold morning. The frigid air knew nothing of rarefied oratory or high expectations, of the helicopter that had spun a departing president into the sky, and the [...]
I just added a few photos of The Ovens, near Lunenburg, that my mother took last summer. More new pictures to come!
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Derek Hatfield is in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, having carefully piloted his Open 60 sailboat, Spirit of Canada, to the closest shelter of land after the boat was damaged in the Vendée Globe solo, non-stop, round-the-world sailing race (“the Everest of sailing”).
Spirit of Canada had been hit by a huge wave that knocked the [...]
Schools were cancelled due to road conditions like this. Icy and completely slippery, treacherous just to walk on. I could have skated. Later in the day the ice had melted and run off into the ditches – in most places.
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Ice always builds up and stays in the inlets where it isn’t easily carried out to sea. At low tide it just sits on the bottom, on the mud. There’s always a dynamic edge out there forming, melting, breaking off depending on the wave action, with pieces getting carried out to sea.
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