{"id":3296,"date":"2014-08-16T16:11:46","date_gmt":"2014-08-16T23:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=3296"},"modified":"2019-09-01T18:34:26","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T01:34:26","slug":"7-decks-below-halifax-canada-08142014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=3296","title":{"rendered":"7 Decks Below \u2013 Halifax, Canada \u2013 [08\/14\/2014]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Underwater<\/a>Have you been inside the museum? We should go\u2026meet the dinosaurs ~ \u201cThe Next Ten Minutes\u201d The Last Five Years<\/em><\/p>\n

Well, there aren\u2019t any dinosaurs at this particular museum, since the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic <\/em>is \u2013 as the name implies \u2013 strictly nautical, but more and more I\u2019m finding that such tends to be my favorite kind. Other than art galleries of course, everything is other than art galleries\u2026<\/p>\n

I\u2019d been intending to go for weeks, but I didn\u2019t know where the place was. I was, in fact, under the mistaken impression that it was on the other side of town. But when I was out shopping for office supplies during our last call in Halifax, I stumbled upon the fact that the museum is actually only about a ten minute walk down the boardwalk from where we dock. So, at somewhere around 9:30 I phoned Amras who \u2013 thankfully \u2013 was awake,<\/p>\n

Wanna go to the museum?<\/em><\/p>\n

Which museum?<\/em><\/p>\n

The Maritime one\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

Oh wait is that the one with the Titanic stuff?<\/em><\/p>\n

Yes\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

My big brother knows me well enough to know that I can\u2019t not<\/em> go to a Titanic exhibit, it\u2019s just one of those things, he also knows me well enough to know that said artifacts throw me for a loop emotionally and therefore that it\u2019s usually not so great for me to go alone. So the two of us ambled hand in hand down the boardwalk and paid our $9 each to explore Halifax\u2019s nautical past. They pack a lot into such a small building, huge models of old steam ships, including the ill-fated Lusitania<\/em>, who was the inspiration for White Star\u2019s building of the Titanic<\/em> in the first place, replicas of the floating bombs that took out so many ships during the war. A torpedo that stretches half the length of one room. As we wandered through all of this I eventually pulled out my map and checked it<\/p>\n

Titanic is top side\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

Huh?<\/em><\/p>\n

The Titanic exhibit\u2026it\u2019s upstairs<\/em><\/p>\n

Okie Dokie then\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

It\u2019s not a large<\/em> exhibit really, the traveling one that came to Victoria was much bigger, but they do pack a lot into a small space. Halifax has a strong connection with the Titanic<\/em>, before the truth filtered down through the rumours they had thought they would welcome the survivors of a ship that was only damaged here\u2026as it turned out, only the dead would come to Halifax. It was from here that the funeral ships went out, with crew paid double time and extra rum rations to go through the grizzly work of salvaging the bodies from the unforgivingly cold waters of the ice-choked Atlantic.<\/p>\n

The museum has one of the largest collections of surviving wooden objects from the wreck, including an intact deck chair, and a large piece of the first class newel post. But it\u2019s always the little things that get me the most, the pair of leather children\u2019s shoes from the only child\u2019s body that was recovered \u2013 despite so many perishing \u2013 the dinner menus, the perfectly intact first class tea cup.<\/p>\n

Just\u2026no one ever thought it could happen.<\/p>\n

Heh, hey look \u2013 crew lodged right up front.<\/em><\/p>\n

Yeah, sound familiar?<\/em><\/p>\n

Some things never change\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

I was standing staring at the section of the newel post when Amras came up behind me and rested a reassuring hand on my shoulder.<\/p>\n

You okay?<\/em><\/p>\n

Yeah\u2026a little dizzy but okay\u2026but we should probably get food<\/em><\/p>\n

Food, yeah food would be good.<\/em><\/p>\n

Which is how we found ourselves sitting on a rooftop patio in the sunshine, with fresh air and the general yumminess of comfort food (hey, everyone needs comfort food once in a while).<\/p>\n

The past is what it is, but here, now and in the present? This was one of those good days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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