More of Nova Scotia

The Kejimkujik National Seashore was a gorgeous walk with some fun sights on Easter Monday.

 A nice place for bouldering.

 These are all harbour seals and grey seals waiting for the tide to finish coming in.

 Jake's collection had to stay  at the beach on the south shore.

We drove to the north shore, parking at Bridgetown, and then took a drive out west. This is part of the Acadian Shores and one of the furthest points west in Nova Scotia.

 At Digby we had to try world famous scallops.  They don't hold a candle to lobster.

 Houses this bright fit right in at Digby.

 Many old churches in these landscapes.

 At Bridgetown we stayed at Ken Fraser's RV park.  He is still the world record holder for largest blue fin tuna caught with rod and reel.  It was 1459 pounds.  The record has stood for 31 years and he has an excelllent book about it which you can google with his name.  You would not guess this guy is 75.

 Near Wolfville we camped at a Wal mart and headed to Baxter's Harbour to see the world's most extreme tides at the Bay of Fundy.

The difference from low to high today was about 9m or 30 ft., but back at the full moon the difference was 12m or 42 ft.

Here are two view of the same rocks.

Mars bars at low tide.

Where the kids are standing gets to be under 10 - 12 ft of water.

Carl and Heather McCulley came down at low tide to set their herring net for the first time this season.

We offered to help and before you knew it we had wonderful new friends who invited us up for hot chocolate...

....they taught us about rocks and jellyfish....

..they brought us to their home...

...and showed us around the area including this little known cove where Captain Kidd hid some of his pirate's booty back in his day....

Carl pointed out the rocks that he has been down to, where initials of several pirates are chiseled.

The McCulleys had us back for breakfast and lunch the next day.  Lunch included three kinds of fish and was incredible.  Carl is the last fisherman in Nova Scotia licensed to use shore nets.

We got to take in Kate and Will too.  They prayed with us to send us off and
then it was off to Halifax where four of us went in a fun run.

 James took a wrong turn, but had a great time in the 5 k.

 Tori out sprinted her mom at the end.

 Janna was first in the 1k so she won a cool prize.

 After the run we went down through the park to the water and there were youth races going on.  Janna and James got to run another 1.5 k just for fun.

 These are some of the fortifications around Halifax.

 Lunch at the waterfront market was fun.

This has been a great place to be and we plan to be here another couple days with Grandma V. with us.

Coservatives just won their majority! Yahooooo!