Kingsbrae Gardens

Today we spent the afternoon in St. Andrews mostly at the Kingsbrae gardens. Tomorrow we leave Canada and I hope to get a new phone!

for the Caves clan

I had to stop and take this picture. To bad it wasn't time for dinner!

Fundy Bay

after leaving Kejimkujik we started around the Bay of Fundy, a circuit we won't finish until we leave Acadia National Park next week. The Bay of Fundy has the highest tides in the world. This is a result of its shape and position. Our first point of interest was a place called FORCE. It is a cooperative effort between the government, numerous universities and industry to try to utilize the force of the tides coming through a slightly narrower spot in the bay to power all of Nova Scotia. As well as trying to engineer the power generation, they are studying fish, marine mammals, birds, sediment suspension and anything else that this project might disrupt in a very delicate ecosystem. If anyone wants to learn more there website is fundyforce.ca.

Next we stopped at the Joggins fossil center. This site has fossils from the "coal age". It was a site that was instrumental in Charles Darwin's thinking.

The most amazing thing for a "just tourist" was these trees that would be sticking out of the cliffs in their upright position.

Out next stop was the Hopewell rocks. These cliffs are eroded by the twice daily tides in such a way that the remains look something like flower pots. We arrived about an hour after low tide and started with a walk on the beach.

These are some pictures to show the progression of the tides through the next 4 hours. 

As you can probably tell our weather is deteriorating again so we didn't get to do much outdoors for a couple of days. These are some pictures of the Fundy coast from our travels.

Kejimkujik

 We spent several days at Kejomkujik National Park in the center of southern Nova Scotia. It was not a park with dramatic scenery, but it was probably the most fun we have had. It is a park set up for biking, kayaking and canoeing and hiking. We did lots of all of them and could have done much more if we had the energy or the time. 

 We spent several days at Kejomkujik National Park in the center of southern Nova Scotia. It was not a park with dramatic scenery, but it was probably the most fun we have had. It is a park set up for biking, kayaking and canoeing and hiking. We did lots of all of them and could have done much more if we had the energy or the time. Here are a fe

One morning we took a hike with an interpreter to some petrogliphs that are normally not open to the public. These are post contact with Europeans. They have taken impressions of some of them because they are constantly being worn away by the water.

Thomas raddall park

Beautiful Sunny weather finally. These are all pictures from our stay at Thomas Raddall provincial park. It is directly across from the Kejimkujik National Park Seaside. We kayaked over to the National park.

This person is harvesting seaweed. The long poles have an implement somewhat like a rake on the end. He scrapes the seaweed off the rocks. It sells for 21 cents a pound. 

This is the house the original owners of the land lived in, two parents and 11 children.

My phone has decided it will not charge. I can maintain a little battery if it is plugged in. Tom seems to have lost his phone. We will we back in the states in about a week. I was already in withdrawal from the smart part of the phone. I hope I can make it without anything for another week!!