Beautiful day here this morning so I packed the wife & pup into my
pickup and drove down to Point Pleasant Park for some R & R.
Talk about dog city. There are only two parks in the city where dogs can
run legally off leash and this is the biggest.
We took the smaller 'interior paths' down to the shore and arrived
around 1040 hrs.
Just below us on the shore road, a military parade was heading towards
the Sailors Memorial. Thanks to Hurricane Juan 3 years ago, we now have
a great view of the ocean from some of the paths which were forested in
since I can remember. We stayed for the 11 day, 11th hour ceremony to
honour the war dead on the cold North Atlantic convoy runs out of Halifax.
It's been a while since I've gone to one of these, as we don't have any
close relatives who died in any of the wars (that I know about). This
year seemed special because of the 43 Canadian deaths in Afghanistan
this year.
It was beautiful, the sun sparkling off the water, a number of sailboats
& launches positioned just off the shore taking in the service and a
couple of large ocean going ships in the background...one arriving and
one departing the port.
Wish I had taken my digital camera.
http://www.mikecampbell.net/sailorsmemorial.htm