We had a short travel day today.  We left two and a half hours later than we planned because  it rained so hard last night, roads were flooded!  In a little while we are having a big dinner with the whole group.



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We have four exciting days scheduled here in Halifax, including city tours and the famous Tattoo.  While we were driving here, a stone hit the windshield and put a big chip in it.  Lucky for us we are staying put long enough to get it fixed.  It is also fully covered by insurance so it won't cost us anything.  So, not such a big deal overall.  

Tuesday, June 26th

Today is the day you get your new house!!!  Have fun exploring the new rooms!  Today was a travel day to Nova Scotia.  Once we arrived we visited a military museum.  It was very interesting.  Then we went to a huge grocery store and Grandpop bought a lobster pie and Grandmom bought crab cakes.  We also bought cookies and potato chips - we were hungry when we got to the market!!!  Here is Grandpop enjoying his lobster pie!

Yesterday I showed you a  picture of the flower pot rocks at low tide.  Here are the same rocks at high tide.   There are people kayaking where we were walking yesterday!

We also met a lobster fisherman unloading his catch.  He caught 1,000 (yes, one thousand!) pounds of lobster.  He goes out twice a week - that is one TON of lobster a week!  Here is what they use for bait, it is a frozen block of fish.  They break off some and put it in the trap:

When the tide goes out, their boats are sitting in the mud.  To keep them from falling over, they use a little wooden structure they call a cradle.  They lower it down next to the boat before the tide goes out.  As the water leaves, the boat starts to rest against the cradle.  When the tide is completely out, the cradle is the only thing keeping the boat from falling over.  You can see the cradle under the light green boat.

This might be a better picture of a cradle:

This last picture is just a pretty view:

Sunday, June 24th.

  We are at the Bay of Fundy.  They have the highest tides in the world here.  They also have what they call "flower pot" rocks.  As the tide comes in each day, it carves away a little of the rocks and gives them their shape.  Here is a picture of them from the road at low tide. - see how far away the people look and  how far the tide is out:

We had to climb down a long staircase to get to the bottom.  Grandmom is afraid of heights, but managed to get to the bottom without crying!

They have named some of the rocks.  One of these is called dinosaur rock and the other is called E.T.  Can you tell which is which?

We also found a beautiful Luna Moth.  He was trapped in some seaweed and soaking wet.  The Park Ranger rescued him and took him to the Ranger Station to dry out so he could fly again:

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Spent a great day sight seeing.  Below are some pictures of the views.  But the highlight of the drive was the "HA HA Cemetery"!!!!

We have seen a number of covered bridges.  This is the only one that was painted.  We were told the reason the bridges  are covered is because they had a hard time getting horses to cross the rivers when they could see the rushing water.  So they covered the bridges to block the horses' view.

We found out later that the Cemetery is built along side a river that was named by the "First Nation" (Canadian Indians).   They called it the Ha Ha river. 

Saturday, June 23rd.

Today was a travel day and not much to report.  Except while we were driving Grandmom thought she saw a moose and quickly got on the radio to alert the other rvs to look to their right to see it.  It turns out Grandmom got on the radio too quickly as the "moose" turned out to me a horse.  Now everyone is having fun teasing Grandmom and calling every horse they see a "moose" (especially Grandpop!!!!!  LOL)

Friday June 23rd

In this campground, there is a pond where a family of beavers have build a huge dam.  We were able to watch the beavers swim out from the dam (also called a "lodge"), go to the water's edge, find a stick, and swim back to the lodge with the stick in his mouth.  I couldn't get a picture of  the beaver, but here is a picture  of the lodge.

We were talking with a fisherman and he took us into his hut to show us the huge lobsters he caught that day.  Here is a picture:

Yesterday I told you about the Looney and Tooney.  Here is a picture.  The Looney ($1 coin) is on the  left and the Tooney ($2 coin) is on the right

 Today we took a bus tour to see some ocean caves that were carved out of rock by the tides.  We were surprised how big and deep they are!  Here are a couple pictures at low tide where we could walk inside them.  See how the tide is out and we are actually walking on the ocean floor.  Look how far out the water is!  

And  here is a picture we took about an hour later when the tide was coming back in. Look how high the water is now!!  If we were still standing inside the cave at this time, the water would have been over Grandpop's head!