Picture That!

Goal for the Day

As our days here in Nova Scotia slowly wind to an end, we're trying to finish up the items on our "Wish List".  Today's goal is to find a lobster dinner.  I can't believe that right here on the Bay of Fundy, we couldn't find a single restaurant that serves it.  It may mean going to the market and buying the fixings and cooking it ourselves.  Whatever - it's lobster day for us.

Yesterday, as we were just finishing up photographing the final cemetery on our list we were engulfed in a loud and very active thunder storm.  That was a first for this trip and by the time we got back to the campground, the skies had pretty much cleared and we had a lovely evening.

Ann at the Clifton Cemetery

Great Great Grandfather
William Moore

Our photography project was a great success with almost 2500 shots to be sorted out and added to the family history.  Ann is responsible for the vast majority of the images with her great little camera.  She has attacked this work with great gusto - taking along her barbeque brush, grass clippers as her main tools.  My iPhone takes pretty good pictures, but certainly not of the same quality.  We've learned a lot - for instance - cloudy days make for clearer pictures and that if you get close enough there is less cropping and enhancing required on the computer end of things.  The trick we've found is to ply Ann with Espresso before leaving for the day.  She can sure move fast "under the influence"!  How lucky am I to have a friend like that!

Bay of Funday

As we're passing through these familiar roads for the last time this trip, we've been simply blown away by the magnificent scenery at every turn.  We've seen the tides at every point in their rush to the rippled red beaches and back,the glorious Cobequid Mountains, lush forests bedded down in nests of ferns and wild flowers.  It has been truly a feast for the senses.  Outstanding were the lovely and majestic Stewiacke Valley and the Fundy Shore from Economy to
Five Islands.  We've experienced some amazing orange sunsets that cast long shadows over the campground and ever the odd sunrise (a bit early for us most days).

We feel so at home here and here are a few ways we know we've been here a while:

1. When you can travel almost anywhere in central Nova Scotia without the use of the GPS.
2. When the lady at Smitty's refers to us as "regulars".
3. When you can pass a cemetery and say "Been there; done that".
4. When the summer student at the Bass River Museum calls you by name.
5. When you know the names of all the streets in the tiny villages along the Fundy Shore.
6. When you can hook up the RV in under two minutes (including water, sewer and power)
7. When everything you travel with is neatly stowed away for the road. (No rattles)
8. When you've had 20 different "next door neighbours".
9. When you have a favourite restaurant, favourite ice cream stand, favourite grocery store and favourite bakery.
10. When you know where to find the "best" pizza - fresh, hot and delicious.
11. When you know where the "bad" bumps on the highway are, and how to avoid them.
12. When you've seen several road construction projects begin and end.
13. When you can spend an afternoon with "family" at the beach.

So - to be continued for a little longer.....................