Friday 27 July 2012

Hey Rosetta! Hey Georges Island!

Last Saturday while the Tall Ship festival was at it's height, Hey Rosetta was putting on a show on Georges Island.  The story of which is that it is overrun with snakes, although I think booming voice Ben Caplan pulled a St. Patrick and sent them packing along with my hearing.  The island isn't suppose to be open to the public for another 2 years as a national historic site, but an exception ($$$) was made for the show.  It was kind of cool because the local pals had never been on the island and had never seen the city from there. Also, the Gillen sisters scored tickets which were mistaken as VIP tickets which allowed them to skip lines and stay in VIP section, although the did slum it a bit in the schlub section with us.  Meow!  It was a scorcher of a day with hardly any shade on the drumlin.  People were passing out LRC and pissing and crapping themselves on 2 confirmed accounts.  Thanks to that day I'm as orange as an umpa lumpa.  Double Meow!









The lineup to get ferry's back to the city was ridiculous. Almost turned into Lord of the Flies.  Once we got back to the mainland we met up with the VIP's who had jumped the queue and Mr. Colin who got back an hour after me and Sarah.




All in all, a fun day!

The Tall friendShips

Another action packed week with the Tall Ships in town along with loads of tourists.  The Gillen sisters were also in town.  During which Shawna learned that Keith's and actual IPA have nothing in common.  Nightly fireworks, random canon firings, Firetruck sirens.  "Fire in the Hole!"














Tuesday 24 July 2012

Power Street Revisited

Whitehead was in town for a week and while he was here he scored a beach house on St. Margaret's Bay about a half hour outside of town.  It was a little run down but it was pretty cool and the water was pretty decent for swimming.  The day before he went back to T.O. we went on a whale watching tour and although they had the best day of the season the day before, we still got to see 2 Fin whales, and a tonne of Gannet's do there dives into the water.  The breeze on the water made it almost worth while in itself, while the city baked.  The weather was pretty visitor friendly with only a couple hours of clouds one morning.