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nootz
    
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Lake Echo, NS
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 140 on 5/4/2010 8:02 PM >
|  | | | We saw that path, but decided to look farther along the main path. I'm busy all weekend, but I can try to get up there next weekend.
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cormiermax
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<Reply # 141 on 5/4/2010 8:05 PM >
| | | | Im not really sure its trip worthy, just a big block, but if you are going just to explore you should be able to find more if you follow that path.
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nootz
location:
Lake Echo, NS
Gender: Male
Many will always go where only one is needed
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<Reply # 142 on 5/4/2010 8:42 PM >
| | | | Finally got around to putting it in the db:
Purcells Cove Foundation
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cormiermax
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<Reply # 143 on 5/4/2010 8:54 PM >
| | | | Very nice 
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cormiermax
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<Reply # 145 on 6/6/2010 8:19 PM >
| | | | Found some kind of tube containing a role of signatures, did any of you place it there? If not then it looks like quite a few people have been there.
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nootz
location:
Lake Echo, NS
Gender: Male
Many will always go where only one is needed
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<Reply # 147 on 6/6/2010 8:31 PM >
| | | | It probably is. N250cc's GPS picked up a few around that location.
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cormiermax
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<Reply # 148 on 6/7/2010 12:24 AM >
| | | | Id say there were at least 10 signatures on it.
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cormiermax
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<Reply # 150 on 6/7/2010 9:11 PM >
| | | | Went exploring today, found what at first glance seems to be a man made hill. Went to the top and found it was perfectly flat and rounded and had a great view point of the harbor. Maybe once a gun emplacement? It was right next to the concrete foundation.
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nootz
location:
Lake Echo, NS
Gender: Male
Many will always go where only one is needed
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<Reply # 151 on 6/7/2010 9:13 PM >
| | | | It's possible, but unlikely. If it were a gun emplacement, you would see a bit of an indentation in the top flat area with a circle of bolts/nuts. More likely to be a former watchtower base. Similar to what's at York Shore Battery I would think.
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cormiermax
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<Reply # 152 on 6/7/2010 9:18 PM >
| | | | Ill to a little digging around tomorrow, see what I can find.
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Pargates
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<Reply # 153 on 6/16/2010 10:48 PM >
|  | | | The foundation in the woods is the remains of the 18th Anti-Aircraft Battery, an installation built in 1942.
It was a fake anti-aircraft battery, part of a larger plan to make the Germans believe Halifax had heavier anti-air defenses than it actually did. At that time, it was thought possible that Germany might develop carriers or bases allowing bombing raids on North America. Some maps from the 50s still show "18th AA Battery Road" running near the site, which was another part of the deception.
If you look around the concrete remains you'll see the circular earthen remains of the "gun pits", where telephone poles painted black were mounted to stand in for guns. There are some other ruins around the area too, but not much worth looking at.
Here is the link for the geocache at the site: http://www.geocach...-bedf-36a440b91768
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cormiermax
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<Reply # 154 on 6/17/2010 2:30 AM >
| | | | Very interesting! I guess we finally know what it is!
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cormiermax
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<Reply # 155 on 6/17/2010 10:30 AM >
| | | | Also I don't suppose you have any information on the reservoir/tunnel near the foundation?
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tribeachpunk
   
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Halifax, NS
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 156 on 6/17/2010 4:38 PM >
| | | | Posted by Pargates
The foundation in the woods is the remains of the 18th Anti-Aircraft Battery, an installation built in 1942.
It was a fake anti-aircraft battery, part of a larger plan to make the Germans believe Halifax had heavier anti-air defenses than it actually did. At that time, it was thought possible that Germany might develop carriers or bases allowing bombing raids on North America. Some maps from the 50s still show "18th AA Battery Road" running near the site, which was another part of the deception.
If you look around the concrete remains you'll see the circular earthen remains of the "gun pits", where telephone poles painted black were mounted to stand in for guns. There are some other ruins around the area too, but not much worth looking at.
Here is the link for the geocache at the site: http://www.geocach...-bedf-36a440b91768
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<Reply # 157 on 6/20/2010 11:47 PM >
| | | | Posted by cormiermax
Also I don't suppose you have any information on the reservoir/tunnel near the foundation?
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I haven't seen that one, but there are quite a few drainage tunnel systems in the area. The ones down below Connaught Battery seem fairly elaborate, with multiple access points big enough for a ladder.
It's pretty flat by the AA battery though so it might be something else.
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nootz
location:
Lake Echo, NS
Gender: Male
Many will always go where only one is needed
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<Reply # 158 on 6/21/2010 2:45 AM >
| | | | It's probably a water reservoir for a former quarry that's near it.
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cormiermax
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<Reply # 159 on 6/21/2010 11:01 PM >
| | | | Also do you have any historic pictures of the location? Or maybe maps like the one you were talking about?
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