Crystal Crescent Beach is just outside of Sambro — roughly a half-hour drive from Halifax. I’m told it’s one of the more popular sand beaches in the area, though the water was a little chilly for swimming. Anyhow, there are some nice trails that run along the coastline. I walked along the edge for a while, with the thought of checking out a neat rock-like object on a distant point. It had the look of a WWII-era pillbox, a bunker, or something like that. When I finally got up close, it’s true nature was revealed: it was just a big, rectangular rock. I was not all that impressed, and neither was another guy there at the same time as me, who was peeing on it. Dang. The next trip will have to be somewhere more isolated, like Baffin Island.

Further along the way, there were a few beat-up old lobster traps. Must’ve washed ashore at some point. I guess most fishermen use steel ones nowadays. Hmm, there may or may not have been whales frolicking in the distance. It was a little hard to tell.