It’s easy to display any place as a tourist destination. Yet most places also have their business and their working sides. Halifax is no different. Halifax is not only about beaches and nice places for food and drinks. It is also a major port in Canada.
So to portray it as only having a nice boardwalk, restaurants and sandy beaches close by, we’re missing that other part.
Last week I was startled by the sound of fog horns. Working late in my office, I had no idea what time it was or even what weather it was outside. Those horns started low and soft but soon got a lot louder. One glance outside and the reason was clear. Or rather, not clear at all. Fog or mist, the result was a magical environment with plenty of things “missing”.
So I grabbed my camera and left the apartment. The first view was the above one over the parking lot of one of the hospitals close by. I had already wondered why there were no helicopters flying in at this time of day.
Pickings are slim when your movements are limited. Yet if you get into a city park in Canada, you will always find something to photograph. So, with no ideas in mind other than to get some fresh air, I left for a city park. It showed up on my GPS as a fairly big area.
It turned out to be coverable from side to side in less than 30 minutes. At first that was a bit of a disappointment, but when it started to rain when I got back to the car… silver linings, eh? 
Not a day goes by that we don’t get to see some disaster. Not a day goes by that we don’t get to see a nice kitty, bird or other cute animal. Accidents, miracles, forest fires and more. Everything is screaming for our attention and everything leaves everything else in the dust.
When the first (great) pictures of an Iceland volcano eruption flooded the media, everybody was (supposed to be) in awe. Now, several weeks later, the pictures barely show up on the last pages of the newspapers, let alone on online news outlets.
When a government allows itself to restrict your movements, short trips are all you can get. Luckily I now live in a place with beauty very close by. Barely out of town, the vistas open up. It may not be to the liking of any government to move more than a few kilometers away from home, but hey, with no symptoms of anything, nobody getting sick in my surroundings, I can fairly safely say that I don’t carry this particular virus.
Driving around in a car, getting out in an open space and staying away from anyone who wants to approach, the risk of catching anything but a headache from my ranting is nil to anyone.