Day 52 Bar Harbour We had left Canadian Water and arrived in the USA. This meant when we arrived in the harbour US Border Protection Officers came aboard. All passengers had to take passports and immigration forms to the café area on deck 7 and be processed before going ashore. As we had a booked tour first up this morning we were in the early grouping to be processed. Bar Harbour has no wharf so once again we were being tendered to the docks. The tou...

Day 51 Halifax As Halifax is a large city, the port area could easily accommodate several ships at the wharf. This certainly made going ashore much easier. As we walked through the terminal we tried to connect to the internet. The locations guide from the ship mentioned to us that the internet connection over the past few weeks has not been good at the terminal and suggested we try the public library. As today was a walk around the town highlights day we wo...

Day 50 Sydney Nova Scotia We had organised a hire car to drive to Louisbourg, about 40 minutes from Sydney. As this was another tender port and the cruise booked shore excursions were given the first tenders, we were ready and waiting early to depart the ship. Once ashore we were shuttled to the car rental company. We had requested a corolla sized car and were surprised to find we had been given a Jeep Compass (a car this size for our New England drive wo...

Day 49 Charlottetown It was an early morning start today as we had a full day tour and meeting time was 8:30am on the pier. At this port we went ashore via tender. Once ashore we joined our tour, The Best of Prince Edward Island. The day was rather overcast and cool. After a slow drive through Charlottetown having the main points of town pointed out to us - large cathedrals of the Catholic, Anglican and Uniting Churches and the building where they first m...

Day 48 Day at Sea (River Actually) Today was spent cruising down the St Lawrence River and then out into the Gulf of St Lawrence. Vince attended a Digital workshop in regard to making the most of your digital camera. Margaret went to the Culinary Arts centre where one of the onboard chefs demonstrated the making of New England Clam Chowder. Whilst roaming the ship we came across a room with women from a San Diego Quilting group. Apparently Quilting...