Went on a short drive to our major park on the tip of the peninsula.
While there, at an old beach we played on as kids, I noticed two fishing
boats tending to lobster traps right at the beach & next to one of our
container piers.
The biggest local New Years Day polar bear swim was held at this beach
until 2000 when authorities declared the beach too contaminated with
bacteria to allow swimming...even in January. Now I see them fishing
for lobster... talk about being grossed out!

Don't fret about the polar bear swimmers though, events were held at
three other locations within a few miles of the city center...
at Herring Cove, Portuguese Cove and Lawrencetown Beach.
http://www.hfxnews.com/index.cfm?sid=3326&sc=1

Harry Krause wrote:
Don White wrote:

Went on a short drive to our major park on the tip of the peninsula.
While there, at an old beach we played on as kids, I noticed two
fishing boats tending to lobster traps right at the beach & next to
one of our container piers.
The biggest local New Years Day polar bear swim was held at this beach
until 2000 when authorities declared the beach too contaminated with
bacteria to allow swimming...even in January. Now I see them fishing
for lobster... talk about being grossed out!

Don't fret about the polar bear swimmers though, events were held at
three other locations within a few miles of the city center...
at Herring Cove, Portuguese Cove and Lawrencetown Beach.
http://www.hfxnews.com/index.cfm?sid=3326&sc=1



As scavengers, lobsters eat crap under any and all circumstances anyway.
Still, harvesting lobsters next to a commercial pier seems a
bit...off-putting.


Not only that, we're still building our sewage treatment plant. Now, and
for the last 256 years, we've been dumpimg raw sewage into the same harbour.

Harry Krause wrote:

Ahhhh...you're trying to catch up to the USA...

And I was going to go out in a while and buy a couple of lobsters...


Don't worry if they're from Nova Scotia. We send the good ones caught
in pristine waters stateside and over to France. We keep the crappy
ones for local consumption.

Don,
Can you send me a few?


"Don White" wrote in message
...
Went on a short drive to our major park on the tip of the peninsula.
While there, at an old beach we played on as kids, I noticed two fishing
boats tending to lobster traps right at the beach & next to one of our
container piers.
The biggest local New Years Day polar bear swim was held at this beach
until 2000 when authorities declared the beach too contaminated with
bacteria to allow swimming...even in January. Now I see them fishing for
lobster... talk about being grossed out!

Don't fret about the polar bear swimmers though, events were held at three
other locations within a few miles of the city center...
at Herring Cove, Portuguese Cove and Lawrencetown Beach.
http://www.hfxnews.com/index.cfm?sid=3326&sc=1

"Harry Krause" wrote in message
...
Don White wrote:
Harry Krause wrote:
Don White wrote:

Went on a short drive to our major park on the tip of the peninsula.
While there, at an old beach we played on as kids, I noticed two
fishing boats tending to lobster traps right at the beach & next to one
of our container piers.
The biggest local New Years Day polar bear swim was held at this beach
until 2000 when authorities declared the beach too contaminated with
bacteria to allow swimming...even in January. Now I see them fishing
for lobster... talk about being grossed out!

Don't fret about the polar bear swimmers though, events were held at
three other locations within a few miles of the city center...
at Herring Cove, Portuguese Cove and Lawrencetown Beach.
http://www.hfxnews.com/index.cfm?sid=3326&sc=1


As scavengers, lobsters eat crap under any and all circumstances anyway.
Still, harvesting lobsters next to a commercial pier seems a
bit...off-putting.


Not only that, we're still building our sewage treatment plant. Now, and
for the last 256 years, we've been dumpimg raw sewage into the same
harbour.


Ahhhh...you're trying to catch up to the USA...

And I was going to go out in a while and buy a couple of lobsters...


How much/pound for 2~2 1/2 pounders out by you Harry?

Reggie Smithers wrote:
Don,
Can you send me a few?


"Don White" wrote in message
...

Went on a short drive to our major park on the tip of the peninsula.
While there, at an old beach we played on as kids, I noticed two fishing
boats tending to lobster traps right at the beach & next to one of our
container piers.
The biggest local New Years Day polar bear swim was held at this beach
until 2000 when authorities declared the beach too contaminated with
bacteria to allow swimming...even in January. Now I see them fishing for
lobster... talk about being grossed out!

Don't fret about the polar bear swimmers though, events were held at three
other locations within a few miles of the city center...
at Herring Cove, Portuguese Cove and Lawrencetown Beach.
http://www.hfxnews.com/index.cfm?sid=3326&sc=1



What... polar bear swimmers or lobsters?

Don,
I was thinking lobster, do you enjoy polar bear?


"Don White" wrote in message
...
Reggie Smithers wrote:
Don,
Can you send me a few?


"Don White" wrote in message
...

Went on a short drive to our major park on the tip of the peninsula.
While there, at an old beach we played on as kids, I noticed two fishing
boats tending to lobster traps right at the beach & next to one of our
container piers.
The biggest local New Years Day polar bear swim was held at this beach
until 2000 when authorities declared the beach too contaminated with
bacteria to allow swimming...even in January. Now I see them fishing for
lobster... talk about being grossed out!

Don't fret about the polar bear swimmers though, events were held at
three other locations within a few miles of the city center...
at Herring Cove, Portuguese Cove and Lawrencetown Beach.
http://www.hfxnews.com/index.cfm?sid=3326&sc=1



What... polar bear swimmers or lobsters?

Reggie Smithers wrote:
Don,
I was thinking lobster, do you enjoy polar bear?



Nope!
A group of my buddies started the first polar bear swim back in the late
'70s and I could have been a founding member. Just too sensible I guess.

Hey Don you go to school with Keener S.M.U. 75 or 76? I was on the
11th floor. You by chance wern't a floor Don were you?

Don White wrote:

Reggie Smithers wrote:
Don,
I was thinking lobster, do you enjoy polar bear?



Nope!
A group of my buddies started the first polar bear swim back in the late
'70s and I could have been a founding member. Just too sensible I guess.

Dry wrote:
Hey Don you go to school with Keener S.M.U. 75 or 76? I was on the
11th floor. You by chance wern't a floor Don were you?

Don White wrote:

Reggie Smithers wrote:

Don,
I was thinking lobster, do you enjoy polar bear?



Nope!
A group of my buddies started the first polar bear swim back in the late
'70s and I could have been a founding member. Just too sensible I guess.

No... I was a 'working class hero' by that time.
Do you remember that old Halifax Cable sports show hosted by Bill Maden?
He and a half dozen other weight room regulars from the South Park
Street YMCA organized the yearly New Years dunkings at Black Rock Beach.
Bill also did commentary on the televised St. Mary's football games.