Nova Scotia - Sep 15 - 20

Sep 15 - we went back to Digby, walked along the Admiral's Walk on the harbour front. Tide was low, it's amazing to see all the boats stranded there until the next high tide. From there we wandered along  on the coastal drive, we visited an old granite church and the tallest wooden church in North America. We stopped at a couple lighthouses, at one Denis bought me a pair of gloves from the gift shop. We ate lunch at Weymouth, which was a ship building centre  and now a very sleepy town. Continued on to Yarmouth and had supper at Rudder's Seafood Restaurant & Brew Pub, Denis and Sandra enjoyed the beer and we all recommend the seafood.

Digby scallop fleet at low tide

Sep 16 - Denis enjoyed a visit to the Firefighter's Museum and I ambled around downtown and visited a small gallery and bought a couple prints. When we met up again we walked along the waterfront, after lunch we drove to Cap Forchu lighthouse. Then we took to the road again, saw the oldest courthouse/jail in Canada in Tusket. We bought Eel Lake oysters directly from the sea harvester, an oyster shucker I'm not! I managed to gouge myself in two places and the oyster was still safe inside it's shell. Now I see there's an oyster shucking glove to go along with the oyster knife, maybe it's made of kevlar. We camped for the night at Wood's Harbour.

Sep 17 - we continued along the road less travelled to Barrington where I visited the woolen mill and Denis checked out the Seal Island lighthouse museum, a replica of the actual lighthouse. We visited the Baccaro and Clark's Harbour lighthouses on our way to Shelburne. We camped at The Islands campground across the harbour from the town. It's a very interesting town, the movie the Scarlet Letter was filmed there. For the movie they demolished and rebuilt one building and built another. They say that one intersection is unique in North America as all four houses were built before 1785, only slightly spoiled by the satellite dishes sticking out. We found a fish monger and bought lobsters for supper.

Sep 18 - we visited the Black Loyalist Historic site in Birchtown. We enjoyed the lobster so much we bought more before we left town. The town of Shelburne was all geared up for a cruise ship visit but the captain decided he didn't want to come into the bay so the businesses are very disappointed. We wandered along to Liverpool and tried to visit the Hank Snow museum, their hours sign said they should be open but the 'Sorry we're closed' sign was up. Sandra had visited it the day before. We had to make do with a visit to Fort Point historic site and bonus - a lighthouse and cannons!

Fort Point - lighthouse, cannons and non-operating pulp mill across the bay

The google car passed us near Vogelers Cove and then again at Broad Cove where we had stopped to watch some surfers. Will have to check Google some time later when they revise that area! We camped for the night at Risser's Beach Prov. Pk.

Sep 19 - we toured around the area and visited Petite Riviere winery. After picking up the trailer we headed up to Bridgewater. We decided to book into a spot for a week and found a place near Peggy's Cove. We'll do day trips from here. We've clocked up 20,000 km, Denis says he now understands how Glen and Debby put on 27,000 km.

Sep 20 - we backtracked and visited the Swissair flight 111 crash memorial at Bayswater. On to Lunenburg, another great place to visit. The Bluenose II was in port so we ogled it along with 5 bus loads of other tourists. We had lunch with Sandra and then walked around the beautiful old buildings. The old town has been declared a UNESCO World Heritage site. We found ourselves at the Ironworks Distillery so made a stop there, Denis got rum, no surprise and I got Rhubarb Esprit, no surprise either, everyone knows how much I like rhubarb! We drove to Blue Rocks, couldn't see any blue rocks, guess it's just the name of the village. Then we headed out to The Ovens which are some sea caves in an area where gold was found in 1861 but the rush didn't last long.


Beer, sunshine & Bluenose II in the background, he's holding up the lobster alarm

Note the gloves, it's been darn cold here!

Sep 21 - backtracking again today we visited Mahone Bay another beautiful town, then toured around Chester and had a late lunch. All the little towns are very pretty, built around the bays with boats bobbing on them. We came back a bit early and cooked a small pork loin, I think we were both surprised how much we enjoyed the change from seafood, but it's back to seafood tomorrow. Tonight there was entertainment at our campground, a kitchen party, but it was outside and you had to bundle up; it's been pretty chilly! Down 2 degrees a couple nights ago.