Hopewell Rocks, August 24, 2010

This is a picture of Hopewell Rocks at high tide (found this picture on internet)




Look at the size of these pumpkins - those are
5 gallon sized buckets beside them. On way back
from Hopewell Rocks, we just had to stop and
get a picture of these in a garden by the highway.


Facts on the Hopewell Rocks - the Bay of Fundy
has the highest tides of anywhere in the world - as
much as 53.5 feet depending on the alignment of
the sun and moon to the earth.



Hopewell Rocks

The path we walked down to get to the rocks
about 1/4 mile, then down about 5 or 6 sets of
steps. Of course down was the easy part!

Looking out across the Hopewell Cape at low tide.

Nova Scotia, August 24, 2010

The red cliffs on the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia


First Baptist Church in Amherst, NS
See the statues of the man and woman, they
are carved from tree trunks. We looked around inside the church,
they were selling their church cookbooks, so I bought a couple.


Pretty houses and flowering bush (are they peonie?) in Amherst

The seaside in Nova Scotia, Northumberland Strait

Wallace by the Sea, NS

Going down to the Bay of Fundy, NS

We were on the Glooscap Scenic Trail, NS

Someone on the hillside picking wild blueberries.
Blueberries and logging are major industries here.

Just pretty countryside

Wild blueberry field

A pretty place

Faces carved into a tree trunk in Amherst, NS

Coming into Nova Scotia (about an hour's drive
south of Moncton). A definite Scottish influence

here - and there are no English/French street

signs, only English. It would be easy to forget

you were in Canada and not the US except

service stations and restaurants were hard to find.

Prince Edward Island, August 23, 2010

The Confederation Bridge taken from NB side


Confederation Bridge

Horses and farms on PEI

Houses on Northumberland Strait (north side of PEI)

Northumberland Strait seashore

Lucy Montgomery museum gift shop

Lucy Montgomery, author of Anne of Green Gables
museum (house of aunt and where Lucy was married).

Fishing village

St. Dunstans Basilica (1919) in Charlottetown

Charlottetown, PEI

Charlottetown, PEI

Countryside - PEI

PEI

Lighthouse, Victoria by the Sea

Victoria by the Sea - shops on wharf

Countryside, PEI

Countryside PEI

Confederation Bridge, completed in 1997, 12.9

kilometers (8 miles) long, cost $1 Billion and took 4 years.

Before it was built, ferries carried people and cargo

Moose signs are everywhere in New Brunswick, but all we saw was moose poo!

However, we didn't see any moose signs on Prince Edward

Island, so we assume there weren't any moose there.

There seemed to be a pretty strong Irish influence in PEI. Very clean

and neat, the farms kind of reminded of Amish farms, so well kept, but

they used modern equipment.

Acadia Scenic Drive, north of Moncton, August 22, 2010

Where we had lobster dinner by Gulf of St. Lawrence
in Point Du Chene near Shediac, NB

The Acadia Coast

Old board bridge, it even had wood decking

Old church on the Acadia Coast - now a museum

Oyster farming

The Gulf of St. Lawrence

This was our Sunday afternoon drive. Weather in the low 70's,

beautiful day!

Scenic Drive Southwest of St. John, August 20, 2010

Our site at Hardings Point, St. John, NB


This is a holding weir for lobsters until they
are shipped. There was a lobster processing
business here.


Wharf and lobster traps

Scenic drive southwest of St. John, mostly

fishing villages, not heavily traveled. Guess who

we passed on the road - the Gypsy Mermaid that

we saw on August 16 in Eastport, Maine, in

her ornate blue van. (See picture in earlier post.)