Season's Greetings from Eastern Canada

[TR6BobNF]

<span style="font-weight: bold">Merry Chrismoose Everybody and a Happy Triumph New Year</span>
Wishing you and yours all the best for 2012. Couldn't find a TR with a wreath but found these three rascals having a moose meeting in my brother-in-law's garden next door the morning after we returned from an unsuccessful moose hunting trip 100 miles from home. Reindeer are easy; thought these were more Chrismoosey.
Cheers,

 

[KVH]

I'm from Nova Scotia. The Moose were in NF?

 

[TR6BobNF]

Hi KVH:
Practically neighbors; well fellow east coasters anyway. Is Blue Noser still a term of endearment or politically incorrect these days? Yes, the moose were here in bro-in-law's garden next door; buggers trespass all the time. We live in Paradise, basically a bedroom community adjacent to St. John's and moose are a common sight both here and in the city. The moose population here has exploded and folks are getting killed and seriously injured on the highway in moose-vehicle collisions with a frequency that has folks pressuring the gov't to do some culling. When you hit a moose in a vehicle you usually lose.
Merry Christmas,

 

[KVH]

My post was a bit misleading. We left NS many years ago, though I've been back as late as '06. What a great place it is, and that drive along the Western coast from Yarmouth to Windsor was like a dream. It reminded me of Arizona in the '60s, with hardly a car on the Interstate.

 

[Brosky]

Those things look as big as camels....

 

[Basil]

I spent 3 months in Nova Scotia doing a radar evaluation on a joint US-Canadian radar system. What a beautiful part of the world!

Merry Christmas!

 

[KVH]

Some tiny trivia.

The US, under its "lend lease" program during World War II, gave Canada three aircraft carriers.

One, HMS NABOB, was hit by a torpedo in the Berents Sea with casualties, but made its way to the Netherlands and was later scrapped.

On Board was my best friend's Dad from Nova Scotia, who later became a Vice-Admiral in the Canadian Navy.

My friend is now Canada's High Commissioner to Rwanda.

Not a lot of Triumph content, sorry.

 

[mgedit]

My wife and I spent a couple of weeks in NFLD last Spring. We had a "great Canadian moment" while in L'Anse aux Meadows ... we were having a coffee in Tim Horton's when two moose walked up main street and continued into the parking lot and beyond. You might have to be Canadian to appreciate this, but can't get a much more Canadian scene than that! There are lots of moose in that part of the province (we saw more than 70 over a couple of days next to the main highway), and driving at night is definitely not recommended. Cheers, Mike