We started today by going to the Historic Gardens. As most of you know, flowers are not too high on my “Bucket List” but, since lunch at a German bakery was included in the tour, I grudgingly tagged along. As before, my Whoopie-O-Meter barely got off the peg.
Roses in the garden
Loyalist Landing exhibit
Acadian house
Garden pond
Lunch was very good. I had a roast beef sandwich and vegetable soup. Dessert was a killer berry strudel with a little scoop of ice cream.
The tartness of the strudel contrasted with the sweetness of the ice cream for a taste that had everyone WOWing.
We then drove out to Fort Anne for a tour of the fort
and the museum which held a spectacular needlepoint that was about 8’ high and 20’ wide. Even Queen Elizabeth did some needlepoint on it.
Next was the Port Royal Habitation, a replica of an Acadian trading post. The guides were all in period costume and gave a great insight into life during those years.
We then returned home via the fish market. Practically the entire caravan went by to buy lobsters at $6.99 a pound or scallops at $7.95. Claudia and I bought the biggest bug they had. It weighed out at 4.19 pounds.
It was so big the lady had to put it to sleep to weigh it. She stood it on its head with the claws out front and its tail in the air. Then she started stroking its forehead with one finger from the back of its shell to between its eyes. It slowly stopped squirming around and finally just completely stopped moving altogether and stood on its head on the scale. Everyone was totally amazed. We also bought two pounds of scallops, some fresh haddock for dinner tonight and then returned to the park. Barry and I set up our bug boilers and spent the next two hours cooking lobster for everyone.
The evening turned into an impromptu lobster gorge and a hell of a lot of fun. This was the best night of the trip so far. After the bug boil, I cooked up two huge haddock fillets for our dinner while Claudia cleaned and picked lobster meat from our bug and the legs and backs of several other donated lobster.
Friday night/Saturday morning passed with a few periods of pitter-patter on the roof. We had an early travel briefing under our awning. Afterwards, everyone split and went their separate ways. Some fired up and left, others went to the local Farmer’s Market and we went to the RV park restaurant with five other folks. I had French toast with bacon and sausage and Claudia had two eggs, home-style potatoes and toast. The bill was $9 and change.
We then waddled back to the rig to get ready to travel. We pulled out about 11:30 and drove 89 miles over a windy, very rough road to Lunenburg, a small but cute fishing village on Nova Scotia’s South Shore.
Sunday…a day of rest! Oh sure! We had a travel briefing at 8:45 followed by a drive to the Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic. We split into two groups and had a guided tour of the facility. The first part was the aquarium…a small grouping of tanks with fish native to the area, such as cod, flounder and halibut. We then went into a larger room where our guide had a small lobster in a bucket of water. She pulled him out and gave us a really good presentation on their lives and habits. After the demonstration, she put him to sleep just like the lady in the fish market had done. Everyone was wowed!
Sound asleep!
Bed felt great and sleep came very easily.
Friday night/Saturday morning passed with a few periods of pitter-patter on the roof. We had an early travel briefing under our awning. Afterwards, everyone split and went their separate ways. Some fired up and left, others went to the local Farmer’s Market and we went to the RV park restaurant with five other folks. I had French toast with bacon and sausage and Claudia had two eggs, home-style potatoes and toast. The bill was $9 and change.
We then waddled back to the rig to get ready to travel. We pulled out about 11:30 and drove 89 miles over a windy, very rough road to Lunenburg, a small but cute fishing village on Nova Scotia’s South Shore.
After a short tour of the town, Claudia and I returned to prepare a co-op dinner with Barry and Terry. Our contribution was a clam chowder/lobster soup. Claudia took a clam chowder base that was given to us by our friends in Paw Paw, Michigan, added a quart of half and half, a bunch of the picked lobster from last night’s bug boil, some scallions and other spices and came up with a chowder that was at least a “15” on a 10-point scale. Again, bed and sleep came easily.
Sunday…a day of rest! Oh sure! We had a travel briefing at 8:45 followed by a drive to the Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic. We split into two groups and had a guided tour of the facility. The first part was the aquarium…a small grouping of tanks with fish native to the area, such as cod, flounder and halibut. We then went into a larger room where our guide had a small lobster in a bucket of water. She pulled him out and gave us a really good presentation on their lives and habits. After the demonstration, she put him to sleep just like the lady in the fish market had done. Everyone was wowed!
Sound asleep!
We then went outside to visit the boats tied up to their wharf
We walked the town, did some Christmas shopping and had lunch. I had the best fish & chips I’ve ever had. We did some more shopping and returned to the rig to await a LEO (Let’s Eat Out) dinner at the Old Fish Factory. We were so full from lunch, we just had appetizers for dinner. After that, it was a staff meeting and photo review at our rig followed by Claudia watching a movie and me doing this blog. A light rain is starting. Tonight will be very restful. Tomorrow is Claudia’s birthday and is a travel day to Halifax, the capitol of Nova Scotia.
and took a group picture. Claudia and I left to do various errands.
We walked the town, did some Christmas shopping and had lunch. I had the best fish & chips I’ve ever had. We did some more shopping and returned to the rig to await a LEO (Let’s Eat Out) dinner at the Old Fish Factory. We were so full from lunch, we just had appetizers for dinner. After that, it was a staff meeting and photo review at our rig followed by Claudia watching a movie and me doing this blog. A light rain is starting. Tonight will be very restful. Tomorrow is Claudia’s birthday and is a travel day to Halifax, the capitol of Nova Scotia.
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