Taking pictures in Pictou, NS

Well. Sorry about the delay here folks! Wi-fi is hard to come across on the East coast, who knew?! Also, this is our first night with POWER so that's a bonus ;) We've made it across New Brunswick, which is STUNNING, and into Nova Scotia. We have our ferry booked to Newfoundland for tomorrow night (actually 2:30am Tuesday, uggghhhh), and then we'll take a jaunt up to Gros Morne National Park for a couple days. Hooray!



(Steamies in Montreal with Mike & Tim)

A few notes about what we've been doing between visits to local mechanics and Canadian Tire stores. After Montreal, we made it as far as Fredericton where we got stuck in an outstanding rainstorm where we lost a windshield wiper on the highway. Oops. We got off and got a replacement blade, but the rain was so strong we also sprung a leak around our front windshield. Sigh. We stayed the night in a Loblaws parking lot. The next morning we woke up to a flat tire, but found a nice gas station attendant who helped us re-inflate enough to get us to a Coast Tire where we bought a new tire. Double sigh.


(A flat tire in Fredericton. Oh no.)



(He's replacing a wiper on the side of the road, I'm taking a photo. For some reason he wants to marry me...)

Back on the road. We stopped at Grand Falls, NB, which was beautiful. It's a very small waterfall but has the same volume as Niagara Falls when all the gates of the dam are open. Pretty cool! From there we drove to Fundy National Park. Fundy is beautiful, huge forests, almost Muskoka-like. There are quite a few campsites in the park itself, so we managed to get a site although it was unserviced. We also got a chance to have our first showers since leaving my parents place earlier in the week!!! Heaven! We went on a little hike through the park and saw some gorgeous streams and a toad. Not exactly as big as the moose we keep seeing warning signs about...


(Fundy National Park)


(Fundy National Park)

That brings us to today! We drove into Alma this morning which is on the Bay of Fundy. It's a cute little town with lots of restaurants and cozy hotels. We were there at low tide so we walked out pretty far. Of all things to mention, the rocks on the ocean floor are beautiful! The colours of them are gorgeous, bright bright greens, purples and oranges. We collected a few to bring home and make into a necklace for me. We had lunch overlooking the water and ate fresh local scallops, yum! Then we drove on to Cape Enrage which is a bit off the beaten path (read white knuckle driving in the Colonel!). It's the oldest light house in Canada and is run by college/high school students making tuition money. Unfortunately it was pretty foggy out so we just stayed below and listened to the fog horn of the light house rather than finish the drive up the crazy mountain and risk our necks even more! The beach below was beautiful though and we really enjoyed the scenery.


(Alma/Bay of Fundy at low tide)


(My beautiful ring)


(I like to show it off but Dan doesn't want me to post TWO photos of it ;)

(Happy engagement trip!)

After a bit more driving, we stopped to see the Flower Pot formations, but were there at high tide so decided to keep moving along rather than paying $20 to see high tide. Walking on the ocean floor at low tide is supposed to be spectacular there, but we also had a really great experience in Alma doing that.

From there we moved along highway 6 which is the coastal scenic route through Nova Scotia and have stopped for the night in Pictou. Nova Scotia is beautiful. We've driven through a lot of picturesque little towns.


(That's the top of a mountain peeking through the clouds. We drove through clouds most of the way through New Brunswick. Crazy!!)

See you all in a week or so! Miss you and love you!!!!!!