We left Prince Edward Island and traveled back to Nova Scotia. We stayed on Cape Breton Island at the Keltic Lodge. It was set on beautiful grounds within Cape Breton Highlands National Park. As we walked the grounds, we were treated to beautiful scenery and also saw several lobster boats setting and retrieving their traps. These are pictures taken at Keltic Lodge. These pictures were taken at a quick photo stop at Black Brook, part of Cape Breton Highlands National…
Before we left Nova Scotia for Prince Edward Island (PEI), we learned a little about the First Nations people, especially the Mi’kmaq. For a long time, their stories were passed from one generation to the next by word of mouth. A missionary, Reverend Silas Tertius Rand, spent about 40 years with the Mi’kmaq and other First Nations people, making one of the first written recordings of some of their stories and legends. The Mi’kmaq people believed that Glooscap was the…
A highlight of our Maritimes trip was visiting the Bay of Fundy where we could walk on the ocean floor at low tide. Tides are caused by gravitational forces exerted on the earth by the moon and to a lesser extent, the sun. Fundy’s tides are the highest in the world in part because of the funnel-shape of the bay which forces the water into a smaller space. At its fastest, the water level rises 13 feet in an hour….
We also explored a few sites near Halifax. We first headed to Lunenburg by way of Mahone Bay. The town of Mahone Bay has just over 1,000 people. It is a fishing village and a well-known tourist destination. Pictures of three churches along the bay, similar to the one below, are popular photographs on postcards. We also saw colorful homes. The paint used for these homes may have been left from the paint families used for their fishing boats. We…
We traveled with Tauck on their Canadian Maritimes tour which began in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The British military founded Halifax in 1749. The Welcome Dinner for our tour was held at the Citadel in Halifax. The Citadel, situated at the top of a hill – later known as Citadel Hill – was in a perfect position to defend the harbor. One of the first buildings constructed was a wooden guardhouse at the top of the hill. Settlers built their homes…