Seal Cove

[vaneramos]

Only one stop on our tour of the Maritime Provinces will receive its own photo essay, this fishing village on Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick, a thriving community during the heyday of the herring industry, now designated an historic site. It far outshone the commercialized Peggy’s Cove, Nova Scotia.

















One photo from Seal Cove was previously posted on August 29 (scroll to the bottom).

Comments

[art-thirst.livejournal.com]

I love the foggy atmosphere... it's mysterious, romantic, and eerie.

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

It was so misty and rainy the first time we drove through the village that any photography, at least with this camera, would have been impossible. Fortunately the island is small and we passed through Seal Cove several times during our explorations. Finally the fog lifted enough that I was able to stop and take these pictures. This atmosphere is characteristic of the Maritimes, highly appropriate for this photo essay.

[vaysha.livejournal.com]

what a beautiful place!

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Yes, it captured our imagination.

[songdogmi.livejournal.com]

The colors on the wall of the building in the fourth photo are simply marvelous. As is the spider web in photo 2.

Because of your photos, now I have Stan Rogers songs going throrugh my head. Thanks!

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

I'm a fan of Stan Rogers! I had Fogerty's Cove and From Freshwater along on the trip.

[songdogmi.livejournal.com]

Good choices, both. I've gone entire vacations on Home in Halifax.

[bitterlawngnome.livejournal.com]

The colours are so gorgeous!

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Some of the wall and roof colour here comes from lichen. I was impressed with the variety of those we saw on the trip, including some I'd never seen in Ontario. And the colours people use to paint their houses out East are a lot brighter than one usually sees in Ontario.

[chrisglass.livejournal.com]

All gorgeous shots, every last one. I'm particularly fond of the first one and spiderweb.

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

With that mist, it was a great day for spiderweb shots. This was my favourite.

[mattcallow.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the muted colours are beautiful...

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Thanks. This is about the lowest light level my camera can handle effectively. We passed through the village a couple times earlier in the day, but the weather was too dark and wet. Fortunately the island is small, so I went back when the fog lifted slightly.

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Part of my disappointment with the Magnetic Hill was my immediate perception that it was nothing more than a slight optical illusion. There was no magnetic force, no "unsolved mystery" as is so widely claimed. In fact, the illusion itself hardly seemed worth going out of our way, which was why I resented being forced to drive past the theme park et al. Admittedly, I was awestruck by humanity's capacity to build a myth out of something so stupid.

Some places, like the hill and Peggy's Cove, are undoubtedly victims of their own success. The phenomenon is widespread in Prince Edward Island, particularly around Green Gables, and we also noticed it in Quebec City. Fortunately both sites have preserved whatever is genuinely interesting and beautiful in order to maintain their worth.

My mother was already meticulous about avoiding tourist trap in the 1960s, so I suppose I have an innate sense. When planning this trip, I did some research and used the advice of friends to choose a few destinations off the beaten track. Happily, several places we visited, while busy during tourist season, were largely unspoiled: the Cabot Trail on Cape Breton, Brier Island in Southern Nova Scotia, Grand Manan Island, and le parc national de la Jacques-Cartier (where we camped north of Quebec City).

[jwg.livejournal.com]

Very nice.

The foreground spider web on picture 2 makes that one particularly interesting. And then there is the pattern of ropes on the lobster traps in the next picture that is suggestive of the web in the previous one.

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Nice comparison!