Cable Wharf

We had to remove the camera at Cable Wharf because the building is going to be renovated. The camera will be back in spring.

In the meantime I am looking for some other nice places in and around Halifax. Let me know if you know cool spots I could take into consideration.

Only four left :-(

Friday night the network connection for the cameras at Alderney Gate was interrupted. A remote restart of the wireless modem wasn't successful. This means I have to go on the roof once again to check which part of the system failed... most likely the router. The problem should be fixed by Wednesday, September 12th.

Chebucto Head offline

I had to take the Chebucto Head camera offline since the building where it was attached to has been sold. Currently I am looking for a new location either at Chebucto Head or somewhere else. It will take some weeks to have it up again since I am very busy with my main business at the moment (which is good in general). Thanks for all the feedback I got the last few days and thanks for your patience.

Parade of Fail

Sorry, Sorry, Sorry!

Thousands of people wanted to watch the Parade of Sail with our cameras yesterday but only a part of them was able to. Our server ran at 100% server load almost all the time until the evening.

The server logfile shows 5.5 million hits from about 100,000 different IP addresses just yesterday. We sent out more than 240 GB of data in one day. That's the traffic of almost two normal weeks in less than 12 hours.

So, it was more a Parade of Fail than a Parade of Sail for us.

But I am sure... the next Tall Ship Festival we are prepared!

Here are some time-lapse videos from our cams from July 16th. It's not as nice as watching the Parade live but better than nothing ;-)

Chebucto Head Camera will be back soon

Thank you all for your emails regarding the Chebucto Head Lighthouse camera. It seems to be a very popular view.
So, what happened? The router which connects the camera to the internet broke and must be replaced. This will happen begin of next week and we expect to have live images from Chebucto Head by Tuesday or Wednesday. Just in time to watch all the Tall Ships going to arrive soon in Halifax.
Stay tuned for some more exciting news coming up the next few days!

Do you like fish?

Today, I want to introduce another interesting webcam to you. Not directly related to Halifax but some kind related to halifaxwebcam.ca.

In cooperation with two partners in the Netherlands and on the Netherlands Antilles we launched our first MOBOTIX underwater webcam a few hours ago.



You can find it here: http://www.breathebonaire.com

The underwater camera is placed at a depth of 15 meters on the drop off of a diving site on the west coast of Bonaire in the Caribbean. It is showing the colorful caribbean marine life... corals, lots of fishes and sometimes divers... please do not feed them! ;-)

I hope you'll enjoy this website as well.

Chebucto Head Lighthouse

Thanks to Todd, one of our webcam viewers, we were able to install our sixth webcam for Halifax about one week ago. The MOBOTIX M22 with 65mm lens is mounted on a cottage near Duncan's Cove. It offers breathtaking views of Chebucto Head Lighthouse.

Almost all ship traffic to and from Halifax is passing this location in a few hundred feet distance. Watch fishing boats, container vessels and cruise ships before they actually reach the harbour.

Thank you to all who already sent feedback about the new spot. I like this one very much:

"As one of the Halifax Hbr pilots who climb and board ships at this location, this new camera site is probably one of the best I've yet seen. Not only does it give you a fabulous view, it shows the current weather and sea conditions at Chebucto Hd and the transiting outbound and inbound vessels."

Smell the Sea

Name: annie
Age: 75
Location: Mississauga, Ontario
Country: Canada

Just have to tell you that the webcams set in Halifax are beyond wonderful. I go there every morning to see the harbour, the weather, and to almost smell the sea. Ifyou had cams like this in Amsterdam harbour, I would be in Seventh Heaven!

You are providing so much pleasure, I can't begin to thank you enough.

Thank you so much, Annie! I will think about Amsterdam - another wonderful city on the water.