Another Day, Another Museum

Business first - we hired a car for our exploration of Nova Scotia from Enterprise. They are handy to us, just a 10 minute walk away at Scotia Square.
Down to the waterfront once again and to the Maritime Museum. We are going to be very learned little possums by the time we return to Oz.
Interesting knowledge I would never have known if I hadn’t visited - Alexander Graham Bell not only invented the telephone but also built boats, boats out of Halifax retrieved the dead bodies floating in the ocean from the sinking of the Titanic, canadian scientists have discovered that it was the high level of sulphur in the steel of the Titanic that caused the metal to become brittle in the extremely cold waters it was in when it hit the ice berg and the the horrific story Halifax Explosion of 1917. Apart from the acquisition of knowledge today we also had to pleasure of meeting Merlin, the Museum mascot.
Tonight I booked flights to St John”s, Newfoundland.Läs mer