The Halifax Lobsters

The Halifax Lobsters

It seems a requirement that tourist locations have a renown synonymous sculpture. New York has the Statue of Liberty; Copenhagen has the Little Mermaid; Rio has Christ the Redeemer.

And Halifax has the Lobsters. The lobsters, situated all over town, decorated with various themes, seemed to have one purpose only, amusement, and they met their purpose well.



So for fun one day, I ran out with my camera and took pictures of me, with the lobsters. (see below)

It was a fun attraction, much like an Easter egg hunt, but for six foot tall lobsters, in the city with all sorts of interesting themes.

I had a good time.

Halifax otherwise, is completely morbid. Its biggest claim to fame is its cemeteries, as the resting places of two remarkable disasters.

Three cemeteries are the final resting places for the recovered unclaimed dead from the Titanic, 150 in all. There are several exhibits in town dedicated to this tragedy complete with recovered artifacts.

The other morbid Halifax legacy is the Mont Blanc ship explosion of 1917. Mont Blanc, a munitions ship caught fire after a collision with another ship. It continued to drift into the harbor after the collision, bringing it to the center of town blazing. The local population was drawn to the shores by the spectacle of the burning ship. The ship, laden with 400,000lbs of TNT amongst other explosives, having burned for several minutes, exploded, killing 1,900 people instantly. The explosion potentially the largest man-made explosion prior to the nuclear era shattered glass fifty miles away. The ship's anchor, 1,140lbs., was found 2.3 miles away after the explosion.

But if you like life sized lobster sculptures, I recommend Halifax.

Bag Pipe Lobster


Ocean Lobster


Bob Marley Lobster