Two nice ducks at Shipyards Landing, alongside the Lahave River – Bridgewater
I had stopped here to get a few images of the ships tied up across the Lahave River, and I took a few minutes to photograph the ducks. There are a lot of ducks, and there are road signs to caution people to not run over the ducks…
HMCS Cormorant was a Royal Canadian Navy dive tender. She started life in 1965 as Aspa Quarto, an Italian stern trawler fishing vessel.
Aspa Quarto was purchased by the Canadian Navy in July 1975 and taken to Davie Shipbuilding at Lauzon, Quebec for conversion to a diving support vessel. The ship was commissioned into Maritime Command on 10 November 1978 at Lauzon, becoming the second Canadian naval unit to be named Cormorant.
From 1980 to 1984 the first mixed gender crew trial took place aboard Cormorant in response to the recommendations of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women. Cormorant remained in service until 102 July 1997 when she was decommissioned and subsequently sold for conversion into an offshore support vessel. The ship was docked in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia in 2000 and has remained there since.
The derelict ships in Bridgewater
The ship sort of sank on 21 March 2015 due to the amount of ice on the upper decks – sort of as she wound up on a list, with her hull on the bottom of the Lahave River and the upper decks above water. The ship was pumped out and is afloat, but still has a 6° starboard list, toward the wharf.
Setting sun as MV Coho backs out of her berth in James Bay
A relatively quiet evening in the Victoria Inner Harbour
And a photo bomb by one of the harbour taxis…
The Strathcona Parkway and Comox Valley obscured by forest fire smoke
‘Namgis Original Burial Grounds – Alert Bay on Cormorant Island
A totem pole at the ‘Namgis Original Burial Grounds – Alert Bay on Cormorant Island
The fishing boat Latitude Adjustment in Parkers Cove
Latitude Adjustment was built in 2007 by Wedgeport Boats Ltd. in Lower Wedgeport, Nova Scotia
The fishing boat in White Owl on the tidal grid in Delaps Cove
This is an interesting fishing boat for me as it is registered as C00322NS, and not White Owl, as she is registered in the Small Vessel Register and these vessels do not have a vessel Name. According to the registry she was built by Dechamp & Jacobson, but it was actually DesChamp & Jackson Boatbuilders (2001) Ltd. in Shelburne, Nova Scotia.
Looking out onto the Bay of Fundy from the safety of Delaps Cove
