The Road to Fisherman's Harbour

You won't find Fisherman's Harbour on most maps, but it is there in eastern Nova Scotia, at 45.11°N, 61.69°W, a tiny hamlet nestled away in the fog on the shores of the Atlantic.

There is no cable television service in Fisherman's Harbour. No movie theatre, no parking garage, no pizza delivery, no bus terminal, no public library, no mega-mall, no mini-mall. There is no McDonald's here. The milkman delivers fresh milk to the door every week, and the nearest supermarket is 90 km away in Antigonish. The local newspaper prints surprisingly conservative rhetoric for an otherwise moderate community.

A walk along the shore is filled with the sights and sounds of untamed nature. I hear the ocean waves pound unrelentingly on the rocky shore, the seagulls screaming overhead, a brisk wind rifling through the treetops. The local population of deer and porcupine is as likely to meander through the woods as to visit the backyard.

This is a place of beauty, serenity, tranquility. This is the road to Fisherman's Harbour.

March-April 2005

All images © 2005 Sassan Sanei

 A rusty part of a hoist and a weathered lobster trap mark the gateway to a hill overlooking Fisherman's Harbour

The original Port Bickerton Lighthouse, now an interpretive centre

The current Port Bickerton Lighthouse

Sunset view from the Port Bickerton Lighthouse

Squince Brook, on the road to Fisherman's Harbour from the Country Harbour Ferry

An abandoned rowboat washed ashore near the Fisherman's Harbour wharf

The rocky shoreline of Fisherman's Harbour

Port Bickerton Lighthouse Beach Park shore

Sunset near Stillwater

Winter turns to spring

February 2004

All images © 2004 Sassan Sanei

The road leading from Fisherman's Harbour to the Country Harbour Ferry

Port Bickerton

The view looking out from the new bridge over the Indian River

Winter fuel

Gearing up for lobster season

Indian River in winter

Gasoline tanks on the harbour

The snow-covered shoreline at Fisherman's Harbour