Over the years I have had many interviews, in various media formats. I have a few favourite moments, watching Terry Fox run his 'Marathon of Hope' in Cape Breton, was certainly one. I'm not sure I could have interviewed him if he stopped, the lump in my throat was that big.
At that moment I remember thinking to myself, 'I'll never forget being here - at this moment'.
The photo below is of me aboard 'The Bounty' in Pictou Harbour, Nova Scotia hosting the CJFX Morning show, probably in 1995. The Bounty was built in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, (where the 'Bluenose' was built) for the 1962 movie 'Mutiny on the Bounty'. When I owned the community newspaper, 'The Guysborough Gazette', Jim - one of the columnists, a retired diver, had been the man 'Keel Hauled' in the movie.
When the USS Constitution was re-built and sailed under her own power for her 200th anniversary in 1997, it was Bounty Capt. Robin Walbridge who was charged with training the crew in how to haul sail.
I was interviewing Capt. Walbridge in the mess. He took off his hat and gave it to me. I had that 'Bounty' Hat until it was lost in a fire last year when the offices of the 'Parksville Qualicum Beach News' burned to the ground.
The evening before the morning show, the Bounty sailed the harbour and I was given the wheel under full sail. Captain Andy McCully, captain of a tern in the 1930's out of Parsboro, Nova Scotia, (My grandfather) would have smiled.
Sadly, Walbridge, his crew and the Bounty were lost at sea during Hurricane Sandy in 2012.
