10.5.13 Saturday Shelburne to Yarmouth

The Islands Provincial Park has the distinction of being the first Provincial Park.  It’s 55 years old this year.  The setting is beautiful and the view of Shelburne is great.  Just as we were packing up along came a Whistler. They're larger than a chipmunk but less than half the size of a gray squirrel.

Breakfast time for Mr. Whistler

 

 

 

Pubinco Harbor Light

There is something of interest in almost every town.  If we stopped to see them all we would be here for the next year and a half!  We traveled down highway 103 to Lower West Pubnico to see the Acadian Historic Village and Museum.  Well we were a day late and a Loonie short.  It closed yesterday for the season.  We are at the end of the tourist season and a lot of things are closed including the campgrounds.  It’s starting to become slim pick’ens

One of the few beings
left at the Acadian Village

The Wooly Bear is on the prowl

 

We continued to Yarmouth.  Yarmouth is a city of about 7,000 on the Gulf of Maine and has been a fishing/shipbuilding port for centuries.  In 1940 The Royal Canadian Air Force opened an air base there.   A Hudson bomber from Royal Canadian Air Force Bomber Reconnaissance Squadron 113 in Yarmouth became the first aircraft of RCAF's Eastern Air Command to destroy a submarine, sinking U-754 about 100 mi (160 km) south of Yarmouth on July 31, 1942.

 

Yarmouth also has a Firefighters Museum.  They have firefighting apparatus dating back to 1819.  There are fire company patches and badges that have been donated from all over the world.

 

 

The Watch Desk

1934 Chevrolet

Model T Ford

1836 Amoskeag Steamer

1926 "Village Queen"
 

1880 Silsby Steamer

1925 American LaFrance
Foamlite Pumper

1892 Halloway Horse-Drawn
Chemical Engine

1819 Hopwood & Tilly Hand Engine

Drag Rope Style Engine

Firemen would pull by
 the hand rope



Firefighter Badges from England

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There were probably 40 different engines on display.

 

 

 

 

 

Marking the entrance to Yarmouth Harbor is Cape Forchu Light.  It is a modern “apple core” shape lighthouse which replaces the small harbor light.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yarmouth Fisherman's Memorial



Outbound at Yarmouth Light

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There are five campgrounds in the Yarmouth area. Only one is still open, Lake Breeze Campground in Darlings Lake.  We got a site right on the water facing the Churchill Mansion Inn.  This magnificent home built in 1889, once a summer retreat for Captain Aaron Churchill and his family, overlooks the glistening navy hues of Darlings Lake.  And so do we!

 

 

 

 

The dreaded Canadian Rubber Snow Python??