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October 17-24, 2015 Maritimes Road Trip: (21 Photos)

21. As most of you know, my younger brother Steve lives and works in the North West Territories. We chat often but rarely get a chance to hang out. This week Steve and his girlfriend Kailee came back East for a visit with her parents in Nova Scotia so Friday morning Sandra and I flew to Halifax to meet up with them for a week long adventure.

20. Steve and Kailee picked us up at the airport and drove to her parents (Mike & Geri's) house in Antigonish. Saturday morning Steve, Mr. MacDonald and I headed out on his land outside of town for an afternoon shooting. We began the day with a few boxes of clay targets, a manual thrower and a couple shotguns making quick work of the lot.

19. While we waited for lunch to cook (and key for the trigger lock to arrive - thanks Geri!), we set up a few targets for our after dinner rifle session.

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17. For lunch we fired up the BBQ and cooked up some Moose Sausages I brought over for just such an occasion.

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15. After lunch we started out with Mike's new .22 calibre leaver action rifle. It's a great firearm, smooth, comfortable, and quite fun to shoot.

14. Next we stepped up to the heavy artillery with Mike's 30-30 lever action.

13. One dead Deer!

12. We had a fantastic couple days in Antigonish. Mike and Geri made us feel just like we were home. Among a whole bunch of fantastic meals we were treated to pizza from "The Wheel" in Antigonish. If there is better pizza out there I haven't had it, no exaggeration. Sunday morning Steve, Kailee, Sandra and I hit the highway headed to Bangor Maine for a couple days shopping. We spent a few days in the U.S. before heading back across the boarder east to Moncton, NB.

11. One of the first places we visited in Moncton was Hopewell Rocks. It's a beautiful place to visit, probably the most scenic area in the Bay of Fundy. At low tide you can walk all among the rocks, when the tide comes in the entire area becomes flooded.

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7. Moncton is home to a brand new Cabela's Store! It's a beautiful location that is well stocked with everything from firearms & ammo, fishing and everything in between.

6. If Cabela's isn't enough reason to visit Moncton, the fact that there is also a brand new Bass Pro Shop in town certainly seals the deal. Again, it's a very beautiful store that's been decorated to match hunting and fishing found in Atlantic Canada. Both of these stores were well stocked and it's a great opportunity to see and touch all the latest and greatest in outdoor gear as opposed to seeing it in pictures online.

2. Leaving Moncton we spent the last couple days of our trip in downtown Halifax. Our first night found us at an awesome restaurant called the Economy Shoe Shop. Our meal was absolutely fantastic, the atmosphere great, I highly recommend it. Leaving there, we met up with Sandra's cousin Vera, and took in a show of her boyfriend's band playing at the Split Crow. It was an awesome night.

1. On Friday, Geri & Mike came in to Halifax for the night. Mike, Steve and I took in the Alexander Keith's Brewery Tour which was really neat. It's a fantastic fun tour set back in the 1800's and tells the very colourful history of a Brewery & Beer that's older than Canada itself! That evening we went out for supper and tried our luck at the Casino in Halifax. The next day we all headed for home, like most great vacations they always end too soon.

Cheers, MIKE