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I woke up this morning with my family aboard a sailboat at a peaceful anchorage in Mahone Bay just a couple of hours sail from home.\u00a0 And shared my thoughts:\u00a0 “We are so privileged to be doing this.\u00a0 Not just having the boat, but to be able to sail where we want and drop the anchor where we deem best, want without paying a toll to anyone, and to enjoy this beautiful scenery so freely.”<\/p>\n

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Sunset at Covey Island, one of the islands protected by MICA.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The first settlers of Lunenburg must have been in awe at such freedom.\u00a0 What we now call Germany was at the time an assortment of many principalities of various sizes.\u00a0 Going down the “highway” of the river Rhine to Rotterdam, where they boarded the ship that would take them across the Atlantic, the emigrants would have been stopped at every border crossing and paid tolls.\u00a0 Many of them had even needed to secure permission from their feudal lord to leave the land they were bonded to as peasants.\u00a0 Once they reached Lunenburg in 1753, they must have been very appreciative of the freedom to profit from their own labour and build their future with their own hands.<\/p>\n

Even some of the modern-day German immigrants to Nova Scotia that I know have expressed to me their appreciation of the freedom they have here in a society that is less regulated than the one they left behind.<\/p>\n

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The entire natural coastline of this island has been destroyed and replaced with a rock wall.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Mahone Islands Conservation Association (MICA)<\/a> works to protect public access to the islands of Mahone Bay, as well as to preserve their natural environment.\u00a0 The islands are increasingly under pressure by private owners and developers.\u00a0 Natural shorelines and nesting habitats are disrupted (photo right).\u00a0 Owners of some islands chase visitors off beaches that have long been used by the general public. (Some have been known to brandish guns in their efforts, something\u00a0 that Canadians or at least Nova Scotians just don’t do.)<\/p>\n

From what I understand, depending on the type of deed, the intertidal zone has legally remained public except in a few cases where water rights were transferred.\u00a0 In a country where travel by boat was the norm, the right to land on a shore would have been an issue of public safety.\u00a0 Nowadays, it seems that there is a trend for private property rights to be extended into the intertidal zone –\u00a0 whether by deed, by custom, by complicity of the authorities or by ignorance by the public, I don’t know.\u00a0 Enlighten me if you know anything more about this issue, please, by commenting below.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, I take pleasure in seeing the decendants of the original Lunenburg settlers, with names such as Meisner and Ernst,\u00a0 involved in MICA, perserving public access to the islands of Mahone Bay for future generations of humans and seabirds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I woke up this morning with my family aboard a sailboat at a peaceful anchorage in Mahone Bay just a couple of hours sail from home.\u00a0 And shared my thoughts:\u00a0 “We are so privileged to be doing this.\u00a0 Not just having the boat, but to be able to sail where we want and drop the … <\/p>\n

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