2025 NE Cruise - Charlottetown, St Dunstan's Basilica Steeples

Our balcony suite was high enough to capture a bird's eye view of the ports we visited.  This is St Dunstan's Basilica, captured as soon as the ship stopped moving upon our arrival at Charlottetown (Prince Edward Island).  Different perspective below from a lower deck on the ship:

2025 NE Cruise - Sydney, Ship's Outside Walkway

And as stated a few days ago, there's just not much to do in these little towns except walk around and see what's there.  Old people stuff.  But we came to enjoy these quaint walks among the New England houses, shops and churches.  Suppose that means we're adjusting to being older ourselves...

This pic was captured dockside of the outside walkway on the Lido deck of the ship.  As one who loves heights, I took this detour whenever possible whether we were sailing or stopped at a port.

And these few photos will finish up our stop at Sydney - next port, Charlottetown.

2025 NE Cruise - Sydney, Harborshore Statue

Canada has its share of unique statuary; this one was along the harborshore in Sydney.  Two more of a different perspective below:

2025 NE Cruise - Sydney, Nestled Structure

The way this outbuilding is nestled among the trees reminded me of this shot captured on Lake Windermere back in 2018.

2025 NE Cruise - Sydney, Pidgeon on the Fly

Though we look at birds as good looking and pretty sounding - and are perhaps envious of their flight capabilities - their lives are nothing more than a constant, desperate fight for a hardscrabble existence.  This seagull was on a mission and had to get there fast, whatever it was...

2025 NE Cruise - Sydney, Cloud Reflection on DT Building

Was reminded of this shot from Nashville as a comparison...note the bird caught in mid-flight toward the bottom of the photo (click to enlarge).

2025 NE Cruise - Sydney, Water Reflection on Shoreside Building

The restaurant prices were usually so exorbitant on shore that we planned our excursions around mealtimes to avoid dropping $50 or more on mediocre fare.  During lunch on the ship in Sydney I was looking out the window and saw this water reflection on one of the buildings in town.  Had to catch it, so right after eating we skedaddled up to our balcony, where I captured this shot.

2025 NE Cruise - Sydney, Largest Violin in the World

By the time we sailed into Sydney it became apparent to us that most of the stops in small New England towns would be basically the same...places in which to just walk around and see what's there.  And, like the boardwalk in Halifax, there usually is one thing that makes it stand out; here it had to be the largest violin the the world.

Silhouette shot below:

2025 NE Cruise - Halifax, 2-shot Cityscape Panorama

I love cityscapes, and Halifax makes for a pretty handsome cityscape.  Taken at dock level, the beginning of the boardwalk is in the left foreground.

It's interesting - even odd - that I didn't take any pictures at all in the Titanic museum, as this was a first priority for the stop.  Featured there were papers and other odds & ends found floating after the ship went down.  What was more interesting to us, however, were the artifacts left after a 1917 ship explosion where the death toll was even greater than that of the Titanic.  We'd never heard the story before.

This will conclude our port call in Halifax.  Believe the next stop is Sydney, Nova Scotia.

2025 NE Cruise - Halifax, Dining Seagull

If this is a seagull it's the biggest one I've ever seen.  Knows how to make itself right at home...