10.6.13 Sunday Yarmouth to Annapolis Royal (Parkers Cove)

 

A beautiful Sunday morning with blue skies and calm winds.  There are quite a few seasonal regulars here in camp.  Last night they got together in a large lean-to with a wood stove and carved pumpkins.  This morning they had quite a gallery on the rocks.

 

 

The landscape has changed again.  As we travel northward up the southwestern coast the hardwood trees have been replaced with short scrubby brush.  All the fall colors are gone.  What few trees (scrubs) that have changed have gone straight to brown.  We are following the eastern side of Saint Anne’s Bay.  There is not much agriculture here but lots of little fishing villages. 

There is a harbor in Meteghan that was half full of fishing/lobster boats.  It will be completely full in a few weeks when the captain's are getting ready for lobster season to open again.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pointe-de-l'Église or Church Point, is the home of the largest wooden church in North America.  Saint Mary’s Parrish was founded in 1799 and now is religious museum.  It’s Sunday and it is closed.  Go figure. 

 

Church Point is also the home to Saint Anne’s University.  It is the only French Immersion University in Nova Scotia.   If you don’t speak French they will have you fluent in eighteen weeks.  After that your classes will be in French.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A few more klicks up the road is the lighthouse at Gilbert’s Cove.  It’s closed to the public but the grounds are a public park.

 

 

 

 

Then we took a side trip down the Digby Peninsula to East Ferry.  We turned around and headed back for the main highway.  There is a beautiful lighthouse across from East Ferry at Tiverton.

 

 

A lone Loon on the bay of Fundy

We spent the evening watching the sun go down over the Bay of Fundy.  Then we started a camp fire as we enjoyed our water front site at Oceanfront Campgrounds in Parkers Cove.  The Bay of Fundy has the world’s highest tides.  The tidal range in some places is as much as 50 ft. and will rise at a rate of an inch per minute.  Hikers must be aware of the tides or they could get trapped along the cliffs.

 

New Brunswick on the far shore

 

Staying warm by the fire

 

I walked over to the local wharf and notice the tidal range here is about fifteen ft. or more.  Getting in and out of the harbor can only be done at high tide.  At low tide the boats are on the bottom.