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Originally Posted by flameswin
Also, bridge jumping on the Myra River. Been there? It's the one wherre the bridge is literally right over where the river meets the Ocean. It's the coolest thing, you stand one one side of the bridge and stare out at a 20 ft span river, with little cottages on either side, then you turn around and stare right into the powerful Atlantic ocean. One of my favorite places I've ever been
EDIT: Found a crappy small pic that doesn't do it justice. Haha, it's also funny what being a kid does to bridges like that. I jumped off it once and I felt like I was 80 feet in the air, and I always thought it was a monstrous bridge when we'd arrive. Now it looks like nothing, lol.
EDIT: Although, that pic did remind me of how scary that current is, where the river is pushing into the ocean as the strong ocean current pushes back. You can't tell too well from that pic, but it's basically right where you see the "ripples" just past the bridge, but they ain't no ripples when you get out there.  |
Mira River. I grew up not far up river from the Mira Gut. It might be scenic and historic out here on the east coast but our weather ROTS.
It's always windy, seem to have a storm every other day, lots of rain, lots of snow (but it can't be normal snow it has to switch back and forth to rain a bunch of times so that it's back breaking), lots of fog and gray days, humid in the summer to the point where you work up a sweat just breathing..... It just sucks.
Avg precipitation:
Halifax - 230 cm snow - 1452 mm avg precip - 171 wet days
Vancouver - 48 cm snow - 1200 mm avg precip - 166 wet days
Calgary - 127 cm snow - 412 mm avg precip - 113 wet days