Friday September 12
September 12 Friday, Parkers Cove, NS
Today has been another of those days when you start out in the morning, never knowing what you will end up finding and doing…..and it has been a great one, finding some wonderful little places and meeting some really interesting people.
Started out with a very sunny morning, but clouded over. Decided not to go around the bottom of Nova Scotia, but to cut across the middle. Stopped firstly in Liverpool…where the River Mersey flows out!!! It seems to be a town that is struggling to survive, but visited the Sherman Hines Museum of Photography, quite fascinating.
The drive through the centre was quite remote, with lots of bush, stopped at the Mickey Hill Park for a lunch break and walked off the wonderful German bread we had bought for lunch with a nice amble through the woods to a lake.
I had picked up a brochure about Bear River that caught our fancy, so headed there. It is an old community on a tidal river established many years ago around shipbuilding. This has long since past, but many artists and craftspeople are based in the community and we met some treasures…Zoe form Oddacity Designs, a fibre artist and Rob Buckland-Nicks an artist painting superb birds onto ocean stones.
Off to the coast and ended up staying at a campsite overlooking the Bay of Fundy, This bay is famous for its huge tides, but we didn’t really realise how big they were until we wondered down to the wharf beside the campground. It was low tide, and the 10 fishing boats where high and dry, with the wharf some 30 feet about them. I walked down the “beach” to the mouth of the little harbour where the water was just starting to come in…a most weird feeling. They will be lifted some 30 feet at high tide.
Spent a very pleasant time after dinner chatting to a young Ontario couple, Rahjeev and Boobie who are travelling in a VW van across Canada for 3 months, great sharing experiences as they had been to many of the same places as we had.
Today has been another of those days when you start out in the morning, never knowing what you will end up finding and doing…..and it has been a great one, finding some wonderful little places and meeting some really interesting people.
Started out with a very sunny morning, but clouded over. Decided not to go around the bottom of Nova Scotia, but to cut across the middle. Stopped firstly in Liverpool…where the River Mersey flows out!!! It seems to be a town that is struggling to survive, but visited the Sherman Hines Museum of Photography, quite fascinating.
The drive through the centre was quite remote, with lots of bush, stopped at the Mickey Hill Park for a lunch break and walked off the wonderful German bread we had bought for lunch with a nice amble through the woods to a lake.
I had picked up a brochure about Bear River that caught our fancy, so headed there. It is an old community on a tidal river established many years ago around shipbuilding. This has long since past, but many artists and craftspeople are based in the community and we met some treasures…Zoe form Oddacity Designs, a fibre artist and Rob Buckland-Nicks an artist painting superb birds onto ocean stones.
Off to the coast and ended up staying at a campsite overlooking the Bay of Fundy, This bay is famous for its huge tides, but we didn’t really realise how big they were until we wondered down to the wharf beside the campground. It was low tide, and the 10 fishing boats where high and dry, with the wharf some 30 feet about them. I walked down the “beach” to the mouth of the little harbour where the water was just starting to come in…a most weird feeling. They will be lifted some 30 feet at high tide.
Spent a very pleasant time after dinner chatting to a young Ontario couple, Rahjeev and Boobie who are travelling in a VW van across Canada for 3 months, great sharing experiences as they had been to many of the same places as we had.
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