2013/07/26: The Ocean

My last day in Halifax started with jogging to and through the Point Pleasant Park, 186 acres of forest and beaches on the tip of the Halifax peninsula. In the early morning, when there are just some people jogging or walking their dogs; trees and ocean are hidden in the fog; you hear ships but you can't see them - it is a nice experience to be there. I also enjoyed the way back through the harbour, although it is a bit scary to be jogging between these huge tower cranes and container stacks. After a last visit in the megastore - I still hate its air conditioning, as much as I hate the air conditioning of the train I'm sitting on - I had to leave Halifax. The adventure "crossing Canada by train" started with a 3-locomotives-and-18-cars-train called "The Ocean". Thrice weekly this train connects Halifax with Montréal. According to the time table the train ride (1.346 km) takes 22 hours. At the moment we're still standing in Rivière-du-Loup with an delay of 4 1/2 hours... Will be difficult to catch my connecting train in Montréal, which leaves 4 hours after the scheduled arrival of the Ocean... But besies the fact that this train is awfully slow and I'm afraid that I won't catch the Canadian this evening in Toronto, there are also good news: there's free Wi-Fi available on the train, wuhuu! And it stopped raining!! Yesterday evening the ongoing rain made it almost impossible to take nice pictures out of the train window, now it would be possible again - if the fu* train would leave now the ugly station of Rivière-du-Loup after almost one hour of shunting and rumbling... The pictures below show some impressions of the previous train ride trough Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Quebec.