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burntcoat-3 burntcoat-4 burntcoat-5 burntcoat-6 burntcoat-7 burntcoat-8 To grasp the scale in this photo: The dot near the bottom of the cliff at the center is a man. The Queen Elizabeth II, which draws 35 feet of water could steam between the cliff and the burntcoat-midtide-1 burntcoat-midtide-2 dt-burntcoat rt-burntcoat 7-walton Walton, Nova Scotia: Walton is near Burntcoat and also has 45- to 50-foot tides. Unlike Burntcoat's soft red soluable sandstone, Walton has tidal flats of harder black stone. At about an hour before low tide, wier fishermen drive their cars out to their fishing wiers to collect netted fish and drive out before the return tide advances. A wier is a u-shaped net. The open end of the wier faces the beach. Fish flow into the closed end and are trapped when the tide falls. Bald eagles also gather here to feast on fish that have been stranded by the outgoing tide. 8-walton walton-1 The photo above and the onefollowin it were taken at low- and mid-tide, respectively. walton-midtide walton-2 11-grandprehouse Grand Pre, Nova Scotia: Grand Pre is a village adjacent to the town of Wolfville. We stayed at the Grand Pre House, a lovely bed and breakfast. Wolfeville is home to Acadia University and a is full of lovely architecture. A Wolfeville highlight is the nightly (in season) roosting of chimney swifts. Thousands flock at dusk and on an unseen signal swoop, in a mere second or two, into a chimney built on a town commmon to roost. 12-grandprefield 14-blomindon Cape Blomindon, Nova Scotia: Cape Blomindon separates the upper Annapolis Valley from the Bay of Fundy. Its geology is varied and amazing. Cape Split (which we lacked the three or more hours required for its hiking trail) is an awesome vista, as is the roadside valley overlook. 13-minerals blomindon-1 blomindon-2 blomindon-3 15-hallsharbor Hall's Harbor, Nova Scotia: Hall's Harbor is on the Bay of Fundy, west of Cape Blomindon. Ruth and I shared a 4.25-pound lobster here. During the time from when we arrived, selected our lobster (it was a blue male, by the way) had it cooked (37 minutes) and shared it (Ruth got the larger claw), the tide had raised the boats that were grounded at our arrival. The tide comes in at about an inch per minute. 16-hallsharbor 10-fortedward Fort Edward, Nova Scotia: Fort Edward stands at the gateway to the Annapolis Valley. fortedward glacebay Glace Bay, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia: Glace Bay is located on a seam of soft coal that, if followed, would run from New Brunswick, under the Bay of Fundy, beneath the Nova Scotia peninsula and island of Cape Breton (where it surfaces at Glace Bay, near Sydney Mines, at the northeastern end of the island, and then contunues under the bed of Saint Lawrence Bay all the way to Newfoundland, 12 hours away by ferry. Notice the natural arch the waves have carved through the coal seam. abbie A fascinating, and harrowing, story about coal mining under the rosecottage Pictou, Nova Scotia Pictou is a lovely seaport on the north end of the Nove Scotia peninsula with a ferry serving Prince Edward Island. When we arrived, after a long drive from Glace Bay, it was already too late to do more than have dinner and find our B&B, Rose Cottage. Rose Cottage is a very nice farmhouse B&B. We were shown a photo of five bald eagles perched in the tree next to the gazebo in the Rose Cottage yard (below). rosecottageyard rainbow We spotted a rainbow on the road behind us as we approached Pictou. annapolisriver Granville Ferry, Nova Scotia: Granville Ferry is just up the Annapolis River from Annapolis Royal, above the only tidal hydroelectric plant in North America. We stayed at The Moorings B&B. Ruth chose the town to stay in because her father was named Granville and so was her brother.
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