BAR HARBOR, MAINE, USA-OCTOBER 30. BACK IN THE GOOD OLE USA!!!!!!

We had a private 1/2 day tour with a driver/guide and Arlene and Bill Barris from Michigan.
Bar Harbor is a quaint little town with a population of 2,500.  It was the summer retreat of millionaires and had magnificent estate homes in the early 1900’s.  The biggest national attraction is ACADIA NATIONAL PARK which consists of more than 47,000 acres/73 square miles, most of which was donated by the Rockefeller family to the US government more than 100 years ago.  It has CADILLAC MOUNTAIN which is the highest peak and has breathtaking views of the rocky coast and many offshore isles.

On the tender going ashore in Bar Harbor

Our driver/guide meeting us for our tour

At the top of Cadillac Mountain in the Acadia National Park

 A Tiffany glass window in an Episcopal church

HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA-OCTOBER 29.

Meeting our driver/guide for a tour of Halifax

Beautiful scenery

Lighthouse @ Peggy's Cove

This was a 3 1/2 lb. lobster being returned to the ocean.

Our 1 1/2 lobster coming out of the boiling water!!

Enjoyment!!

The headstones of the Titanic victims in the Fairview Cemetery

One of the larger headstones

We had a private 1/2 day tour with a driver/guide.  Starting off @ 9:30 we
went to picture perfect PEGGY’S COVE that has the Lighthouse that is one of the most photographed ones in the world.  On the way back to the city we stopped at a small shack that sold FRESH LOBSTERS caught that morning and devoured a small one between the two of us.  Yum-yum!!
This is the most Scottish of all Canada’s great cities and has a population of over 300,000.  It is Canada’s second smallest province and measures no greater than 1/2 the state of Ohio.  You are never more than 25 miles from the sea. The harbor is the world’s largest harbor after Sydney and a viable fishing port and a solid military base.
The city has Fairview Cemetery that has rows of headstones for all of the 121 souls that  perished in the North Atlantic Sea aboard the TITANIC which sank off its shore on April 15, 1912.  The bodies were recovered and given a final resting place.

SEA DAY-OCTOBER 28

Don being served a drink in the Captain's Quarters

My bridge partner, Ann Ellison. We came in first place 2 days and 2nd place the last day.  Yea!!

 

Captain Symonds and vice-captain Tonci Hladilo

Nancy and Don @ Captain's cocktail party

Lecture, bridge for me and of course breakfast, lunch and dinner take most of the day!
We had cocktails @ the Captain’s Quarters before our dinner.

HAVRE-SAINT-PIERRE-OCTOBER 27

Lunch with Christine and Bob

Leaving the Harbor

We docked here from 9-6 and it was Sunday, so everything was closed.  We didn’t go ashore.  When we sailed @ 6 it was dark and the whole town came to the dock in their cars and turned the lights on and started honking their horns to tell us good-bye!!
We had an enjoyable lunch with Christine and Bob Ilzhoefer from North Carolina that we had met on a previous cruise.

SAGUENAY, CANADA-OCTOBER 26, 2013

Statue of the Virgin Mary

Our table of 8 with vice-captain Tonchi Hladilo

The Campbell with Captain Mark Symonds

We docked here for 4 hours and we didn’t go ashore.
Leaving Saguenay, we went by “Our Lady of the Fjord” which is a statue 35 feet in height and is a landmark, watching over sailors for more than 125 years.

FORMAL NIGHT AND THE CAPTAIN’S WELCOME RECEPTION-10/26/13

NEW ENGLAND CLASSIC-OCTOBER 23 TO NOVEMBER 2, 2013 - CRYSTAL SYMPHONY

OCTOBER 22-We flew from Cincinnati, OH to Chicago and then to MONTREAL, CANADA where we spent the night @ the Intercontinental Montreal hotel.

OCTOBER 23-MONTREAL-CANADA'S ISLAND METROPOLIS-is Canada's 2nd largest city and the country's "Cultural Capital".  It is the 3rd largest French-speaking city in the world and has been dubbed the Paris of the North.  The city of Montreal is on the largest island which is 10 miles wide and 30 miles long with a population of over 1,600,000 people.  It is the same size as Manhatten

 VIEW FROM OUR HOTEL ROOM OF MONTREAL.

ARRIVAL IN OUR STATEROOM WITH OUR BUTLER, GREG OPENING THE FIRST BOTTLE OF WINE!!!!

GRAY LINE TOUR OF MONTREAL ON A HOP ON/HOP OFF DOUBLE DECKER BUS!!!!
IT IS 34 DEGREES F. AND COLD, COLD.

CHINA TOWN

 MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS WITH THE CHIHULY GLASS EXHIBIT

 CHURCH

QUEBEC CITY BY WAY OF PEDI-CAB WITH OUR DRIVER VICTOR.

 CHATEAU FRONTENAC-HOTEL DESIGNED BY ARCHITECT BRUCE PRICE AND WAS BUILE AT THE END OF THE 19TH CENTURY.

 BEHIND US IN A MURAL!!!!!!  IT TOTALLY LOOKS REAL!

 DISPLAY INSIDE THE MARCHE DU VIEUX-PORT.

 SAME AS ABOVE

 THE DEDICATED SIGHT SEERERS ON THE HOP ON HOP OFF BUS

DINNER @ PREGO WITH RICK AND DIANE DEUTSCH-THE NORDIC WALKING POLES INSTRUCTOR

QUEBEC CITY-OCTOBER 25-STANDS PROUDLY BESIDE THE MAJESTIC ST. LAWRENCE RIVER, RESEMBLING NO OTHER CITY IN THE WORLD.  THE POPULATION OF OVER 500,000 PEOPLE ENJOY A WONDERFUL CITY.