Another Week-End Getaway

On the Victoria Day week-end we toured the southwestern part of Nova Scotia.  We saw trees, hills, rocks and a bit of the Atlantic Ocean.  Now when people mention such places as Windsor, Liverpool, Yarmouth, Lunenberg etc I have an idea where they are talking about.  I also understand such things as "That is a south shore name." or "Are you from "The Valley"?"

We left the Temple Saturday afternoon about 3:00 p.m. and drove in the pouring rain to Digby where we met Nathan and his family who had left Dartmouth earlier in the day. The rain had stopped somewhere near Wolfville but it was cloudy and windy.  By the time we got there it was suppertime and we went to the Fundy Restaurant for supper.

We stayed in a cottage at the Admiral Digby.  It had a great view over the Annapolis Basis about a half mile from where the ferry leaves for St. John, New Brunswick.  We are told that the sunrises over the basin are beautiful, but we saw only fog rolling in when we were there.

A Lone Trawler on the Annapolis Basin

Sunday morning we drove to Yarmouth where we attended church.  In the afternoon we visited Cape Forchu.

A Modern Day Lighthouse

 The Atlantic Ocean from Cape Forchu

 Broken Anchor at Cape Forchu

Lobster Traps

After Cape Forchu we went to a playground for the little boys and then in the evening we were invited to a barbeque at the Veinots whom we know from the Temple.

In the morning we took a walk along the boardwalk in Yarmough.

 We had hoped to see the apple orchards in blossom as we came through the Annapolis Valley, but apparently you have to go off the freeway to see them.  This week is the Apple Blossom Festival.  Orson will be playing with his pipe band for the festival on Saturday.  Nathan may be playing as well, but Orson doesn't think that Nathan will be ready to play all 56 tunes.

We did see many beautiful trees in blossom in the town of Yarmouth.

Our next stop was White Point Lodge.  We had a three bedroom house there.  The big attraction for some of the boys was the fireplace.  They spent hours trying to get the wet logs burning.  The fire alarm only went off once.  There was a golf course there, but none of us wanted to play in the cold.

The downside of our accomodations was that one of the showers would only put out scalding water, so all nine of us had to share one shower.

Following are some views of the Atlantic Ocean from the resort.

All kinds of rabbits lived on the grounds.  They were under the house and in the bushes.  More of them came out in the late evening, presumably because they weren't so many children around.  The resort sold rabbit food so the boys had fun feeding the rabbits.

With that many rabbits around we wondered why they went to the trouble of planting tulips (or whatever these plants were).



The last day of our vacation was soon upon us.  After a big breakfast in the lodge we packed up and drove on to Lunenberg, which is a picturesque town.  It has colourful houses, probably because of all the clouds and fog.  Some of the streets are very narrow. 

The Bluenose is being repaired so it was not there.  I don't know when it will be back.

The last stop was Malone Bay, but we just stayed in the car and looked out over the bay before we headed back to Dartmouth.  We arrived back about 3:00 p.m.

That evening we found out that we had missed a day of missionary training - oops!  They hadn't tried to contact us about it until Monday while we were away.