Commments on the blog

For some reason any comments on the blog are coming from texts or emails and not from the blog. Here are the three comments, so far.

1. I talk about knit shops instead of yarn shops. Comment taken - from now on they are Yarn Shops.

2. All the pictures are of things and no people.  I'll add some people pictures when I can.

3. In the Peggy's Cove blog I forgot to mention the memorials for Swissair 111. A good photographer always carries his camera almost like another appendage to his body. All my pictures are taken with an iPhone 6 which, half the time, I forget to carry when I leave the RV. It's also used for GPS in the states. I also don't take enough pictures, dumping the bad ones and keeping the good ones. When we visited the Peggy's Cove memorial I left the phone in the RV so I didn't have pictures to show.

So here's the short short story. On September 2, 1998, Swissair Flight 111 crashed in the ocean at the mouth of St. Margarets Bay, approximately 8 km from both Peggy's Cove and Bayswater. All of the crew and the passengers, a total of 229, perished in the crash. Fishermen from both communities helped in the search and rescue operation.  The remains of the people who died in he crash are buried in Bayswater.

Two Memorials were built, one in Bayswater and the other just a few km from Peggy's Cove in a place called Whales Back. Whales Back, Bayswater and the crash site; make a triangular shape across St. Margaret's Bay, which is reflected in the design of the memorials. Bayswater Beach is at the western tip of the triangle. As you stand at the monument, facing the ocean, the line on your left is the sight line to Whales back. The line to your right leads to the crash site, which lies on the horizon of St.Margarets Bay.The memorial has similar features - sight lines both to the memorial in Bayswater  and to the crash site.