Otherwise known as PEI in English, we headed off to it on Sunday, vowing to go nowhere near any Anne of Green Gables stuff.
We stopped at a couple places to view the Flink, we saw Charlottetown, then ended up at Rossignol winery for the evening.
A bit pressed for time so see pictures here.
Monday, July 21, 2008
Day five
It rained off and on Saturday, so we decided to rest and relax. Over lunch at the Cinder place I'd downloaded the Daily Show, so I watched that. We also went out to the little town of Pugwash for lunch. And I read through a chunk of The Lies of Locke Lamora (good book). Oh, and we drove into Amherst to see The Dark Knight, which I thought while good, had the wrong feel for a batman movie, and the pacing wasn't quite right.
Inside the cottage
View of the Northumberland straight from the cottage porch / dining room window
Inside the cottage
View of the Northumberland straight from the cottage porch / dining room window
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Joggins - Day four
Joggins fossil beach is a UNESCO world heritage site. Its got one of the greatest concentrations of fossils in the world. You can walk down the beach, and find them every few paces. Its also on the Bay of Fundy. The water level rises and falls 30 feet between low and high tide. We arrived as the tide was going out, and by the time we left at low tide there was far more beach visible.
Cottage on the bluffs.
Shortly after we arrived, the tide still fairly high.
You can see the different high tide marks. The loose rock just below the bluffs was the best place to look for fossil rocks.
Later in the day, the tide nearly at low, there was far more beach.
Like someone took a giant cleaver to the rock.
Can you spot the fossilized tree trunk in the rock?
Cottage on the bluffs.
Shortly after we arrived, the tide still fairly high.
You can see the different high tide marks. The loose rock just below the bluffs was the best place to look for fossil rocks.
Later in the day, the tide nearly at low, there was far more beach.
Like someone took a giant cleaver to the rock.
Can you spot the fossilized tree trunk in the rock?
Friday, July 18, 2008
Maritime Trip Day 3
No pictures from this day on my camera since I lost them to corrupted data. I walked the quarter mile of cottage property from the building down to the beach. The walk itself was miserable. The scenery was beautiful, but the mosquitos, black flies, deer flies and other flying insects that dive bombed my head were maddening. Apparently this is a really bad year here for mosquitos and other flies. Something to do with a lot of rain in June. Its not as bad once it gets hot out, and when there's a breeze. Later we went into Amherst to get those hats with mosquito netting.
Once I climbed down the short slope to the beach, I left most of the insects behind. I was there at high tide, which out here makes a _big_ difference. I'll have some high / low tide comparison pictures posted in the next few days. Later back at the cottage, we all saw a fox outside.
Anyhow, the next trip down to the beach armed with the netting and at a better hour was much nicer. The tide was low and we were able to walk out to the water past stranded jelly fish to see a bunch of small hermit crabs trying to steal food from each other in shallow water. Otherwise this was a day of rest after all the driving of the previous days. Next update may be more interesting.
In the meantime here are a few pictures of the non cookie-cutter houses in Amherst.
More photo's here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/Joseph.Slonimsky/AmherstNovaScotia
Once I climbed down the short slope to the beach, I left most of the insects behind. I was there at high tide, which out here makes a _big_ difference. I'll have some high / low tide comparison pictures posted in the next few days. Later back at the cottage, we all saw a fox outside.
Anyhow, the next trip down to the beach armed with the netting and at a better hour was much nicer. The tide was low and we were able to walk out to the water past stranded jelly fish to see a bunch of small hermit crabs trying to steal food from each other in shallow water. Otherwise this was a day of rest after all the driving of the previous days. Next update may be more interesting.
In the meantime here are a few pictures of the non cookie-cutter houses in Amherst.
More photo's here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/Joseph.Slonimsky/AmherstNovaScotia
Maritime Trip Day 2
Having got into Edmunston late, we started late as well, checking out of the hotel at 1pm. We asked Amy for direction to the nearest Subway sandwich place. What Amy failed to mention was that it was in a hospital near our hotel. Asking Amy for further directions to another Subway, we followed them only to run across a third Subway on our way to the second one.
Conveniently for us New Brunswick seems to have built a new 4 lane highway that sped us along towards our destination. We arrived at the cottage after dark. (follow the trip route to see where the cottage is).
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Conveniently for us New Brunswick seems to have built a new 4 lane highway that sped us along towards our destination. We arrived at the cottage after dark. (follow the trip route to see where the cottage is).
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Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Maritime Trip Day 1
Started a bit late (cough David cough). I took a picture shortly after we got going.
I brought my new GPS unit with us
We stopped in Ontario for a couple rest breaks, but we didn't stop in Quebec until we reached the most northerly part of our trip at riviere-du-loup
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There was a cute waitress at the Boston pizza, who spoke more English than we did French. (which isn't much) Making use of all the French I know, I wanted to say 'voulez vouz parle on anglais avec mois ce souis?
After dinner, it now being midnight, we pressed on (getting lost in Riviere-du-loup) through the hills of south east Quebec until we finally had to stop just across the border in New Brunswick.
Total first day kilometers: Just over 1100.
I brought my new GPS unit with us
We stopped in Ontario for a couple rest breaks, but we didn't stop in Quebec until we reached the most northerly part of our trip at riviere-du-loup
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There was a cute waitress at the Boston pizza, who spoke more English than we did French. (which isn't much) Making use of all the French I know, I wanted to say 'voulez vouz parle on anglais avec mois ce souis?
After dinner, it now being midnight, we pressed on (getting lost in Riviere-du-loup) through the hills of south east Quebec until we finally had to stop just across the border in New Brunswick.
Total first day kilometers: Just over 1100.
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Saturday, July 5, 2008
Worlds worst roads
Its arguably the worlds worst road. A city of over 200,000 depends on it for their only road link to the rest of civilization. And it looks like this after it rains:
Then there's the worlds most unsafe road. Not surprisingly known as the Hwy of Death. Among other things its one lane wide and has two way traffic. It looks like this:
Lastly there's the worlds worst hiking trail. It leads to this vantage point:
Unfortunately, to get up there you have to get by this:
But this isn't the worst part of the trail. There's an even scarier section by the look of it.
To see it, go to this site. http://www.ssqq.com/ARCHIVE/vinlin27.htm
Then there's the worlds most unsafe road. Not surprisingly known as the Hwy of Death. Among other things its one lane wide and has two way traffic. It looks like this:
Lastly there's the worlds worst hiking trail. It leads to this vantage point:
Unfortunately, to get up there you have to get by this:
But this isn't the worst part of the trail. There's an even scarier section by the look of it.
To see it, go to this site. http://www.ssqq.com/ARCHIVE/vinlin27.htm
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