Tasty lobster anyone?
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 |
Don
Jan 2
2006
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| Sure is...
Mickey Fox... he was quite the basketball player. (probably still is)
Did you actually play with the team.
Were you involved with the pickup teams 5 or 6 years ago that Bruce
Rainnie of CBC would drive around the province playing high school kids
in exhibition games? |
Don
Jan 3
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| Mickey is teaching math at Sackville high. No I was never on par with
these guys as a ball player my skills were more intellectual, par,par
bogey haha. We keep in touch every five years or so !! |
Dry
Jan 4
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| 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? |
Dry
Jan 3
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| 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. |
Don
Jan 3
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| As scavengers, lobsters eat crap under any and all circumstances anyway.
Still, harvesting lobsters next to a commercial pier seems a
bit...off-putting. |
Harry
Jan 2
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| 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. |
Don
Jan 2
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| 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... |
Harry
Jan 2
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| 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
Jan 2
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| Don,
Can you send me a few? "Don White" <whited@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote in message |
Reggie
Jan 2
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| How much/pound for 2~2 1/2 pounders out by you Harry? |
Jan 2
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| What... polar bear swimmers or lobsters? |
Don
Jan 2
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| Don,
I was thinking lobster, do you enjoy polar bear? |
Reggie
Jan 2
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| 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. |
Don
Jan 3
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