3/3: … supplies and news, or about picking cranberries and buggy rides, and always the weather, listening to the wind and watching the barometer.
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2/3: …foraging on and in the ruins) and sand crept and slid through the doorways and windows (and holes in the roofs).
Lifesaving personnel and families, visitors and shipwreck survivors, had moved through these spaces - thinking about the mainland, or loved ones, or the next ship bringing …

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3/5: …part of a workshop’s foundation, and the roses. #Maritimehistory #historicalartifacts #buriedinsand #sableislandnpr #parkscanada
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2/5: …abandoned at the various sites. At the Main Station location (now referred to as “Old Main”), the ruins of several buildings persisted during the 1970s, slowly disappearing as they collapsed and were buried under a landscape of vegetated sand dunes. But there are still traces, including …

2/2: ... As the drying sand fell away, the boat slid in parts to the base of the dune and onto the beach where, during storms, the fragments were scattered by waves washing over the area. Photo Zoe Lucas #graveyardoftheatlantic #buriedinsand #parkscanada #sableislandnpr
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2/3: … sodden timbers, often awash at high tide. Pieces of shipwreck that appear along the shoreline often disappear after only a few days or weeks, buried in wet sand as the waves rebuild the beach.
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3/4:… to provide protection, to prevent it from being broken up by wind & flooding until follow-up work can be completed.
While on the island, the Parks Canada team worked another, larger section of shipwreck:
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2/4:… needed to secure the slope. Although the wreck was high & relatively dry, the Parks team included underwater archaeologists because of their expertise & experience with wrecked ships & #marinehistory. Detailed measurements, imagery, & samples were collected, & when done the wreck was reburied…

3/3: … but the attempt to float and tow it back to the mainland failed, and the Merrimac became a Sable Island #Shipwreck.
Now the only visible fragment on Sable Island is a sandblasted section of bulkhead among the small dunes on the Sandy Plain.
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2/3: … The three crew members were unhurt and later in the day they were transported to Halifax aboard a helicopter operating for the offshore oil & gas industry.
This is the Merrimac during her first #sunset on the island. Within a week, a team arrived by fishing boat to #salvage the #yacht, …

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3/4: … bsky.app/profile/sabl... One night we walked to the pond and sat quietly as horses sipped water in the dark, and the full moon – a Beaver Moon – silvered the clouds overhead. #rosemorrisonmusic
Hand Rose Morrison. Photo Zoe Lucas.

2/4:…the melody in the limbs of the dead Scot’s Pine bsky.app/profile/sabl..., and where she played “Heavy is My Fate”, a traditional Scottish air commonly played in Cape Breton which we posted on Remembrance Day …

3/3: …Once the pup is weaned, the mother returns to sea. The pup stays on the beach for a few more weeks while it sheds the white coat & grows a waterproof, spotted coat, & then enters the sea & learns to feed on its own.
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