Sable Island

[Wilson Fitt]

Friends keep sending me scary pictures which I feel compelled to share.

Sable Island, called Graveyard of the Atlantic, is a crescent of sand about 25 miles long, 150 miles off Nova Scotia's south east coast.

Day 1:

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid50/pae09710d6a471afbca37ca36a1d9d5f9/fcabcaef.jpg

Day 2:

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid50/pd6258d2ddbe0f701b891e4696b7cd2ab/fcabcae3.jpg

Day 3:

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid50/p3aa6a1768d3986716c93ea5e6ad907f3/fcabcad6.jpg

[Alan D. Hyde]

Are there any structures on Sable Island at this point, Wilson?

Alan

[Dave Fleming]

Ayup, some nice location that is.
Good novel about the place bye Edmund Gilligan, now if I could only remember the name of the novel?????
About rich wreck coming up out of the sands and the trouble that breeds amongst the livesavers on the island. Set in the late 1800's and very descriptive of the harsh winter conditions there.

[Peter Malcolm Jardine]

Are there still any ponies on the island?

[Wilson Fitt]

At one time there was a fair sized population on the island including families with children. I used to work with a woman who spent a few years there as a child. She had returned for a visit and showed me pictures of her old house, a two story wood frame building, gradually disappearing into the sand just like the boat in the photos. Environment Canada still keeps a manned research station on Sable Island.

The ponies are still there and doing just fine as far as I know.

[Peter Malcolm Jardine]

If I remember my history, the ponies were originally used to pull the life boats back up on the beach... then finally went wild.

[stevenovascotia]

Great pictures Wilson. I guess the Island has progressed to digesting f'glass as well as it has
always digested wooden and steel vessels. I have a friend on a drill rig in sight of Sable, he tells me its quite a sight in a storm.

[Wiley Baggins]

Originally posted by Dave Fleming:
Ayup, some nice location that is.
Good novel about the place bye Edmund Gilligan, now if I could only remember the name of the novel?????
It wasn't "Gilligan's Island," was it? ;)

[ 02-07-2003, 10:36 PM: Message edited by: Wiley Baggins ]

[Wiley Baggins]

Wilson Fitt,

Thanks for the...I can't call them great... sobering photos. I saw photos of a similar incident near the Chesapeake, but the owner of the boat (and the photos) was able to get the boat off.

[Dave Fleming]

My Earth My Sea.
by Gilligan, Edmund. (other copies of this book)
Publisher: NY: W. W. Norton, 1959 Description: Half-Cloth. Good/Fair. First Edition. Ex-Library. Story of a boy growing up in Nova Scotia. Dj is chipped and mylar is stained and torn on back, library markings. Book edges have some scuffing. read more

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Book:

[Rosebud]

Wow!

Makes our rocky ledges in Penobscot Bay look downright inviting. At least there's usually someone to haul you off on the next tide.

Thanks for the great pictures - its just hard to imagine unless you see the photos.