This year for Thanksgiving Dinner we had to have Maritimes turkey. And they are only 1.25 pounds so we had to have two of them. Plus a pound of mussels and fish balls.
There were no leftovers.
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Sackville Waterfowl Park
We decided you need a break from Kerri’s artiisteerie for this one.
Unsurprisingly we saw a number of waterfowl at the waterfowl park.
We were even awake before some of the birds wanted to be.
Other birds were far more alert.
We could hear some loons, but couldn’t find them anywhere.
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Driving to Nova Scotia
This was pretty.
But by the time Kerri was done aartiisteing it was just weird.
This was the very first lighthouse we saw in the Maritimes!
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Hopewell Rocks
The tide comes in.
The tide goes out.
The tide comes in.
The tide goes out.
The tide comes in.
The tide goes out.
The tide goes out further.
The tide comes in.
The tide goes out. The colour and texture change completely – not because it actually did, but because Matt came home and criticized Kerri’s artiisteic talents.
The tide comes in.
The tide goes out, and Kerri turns into an arteiisteic ghost spider.
Kerri runs out and stands at the edge of the water in the picture above.
The tide comes in with Shepody Mountain in the background. We are telling you that because for some reason Albertans seem to have trouble recognizing pictures of towering mountains.
The tide goes out, and Shepody Mountain reaches a full 3.3% further above sea level.
All of this happens much more slowly in person.
At low tide you can explore much more of the beach than you can at high tide.
We found traces of giant birds.
And smaller wildlife.
There was lots of seaweed. The little bulb things are full of air, so they float upright when the tide comes in. They also pop like bubble wrap when they dry out.
The giant eroded rocks only fall over rarely.
So standing next to them is a really good idea.
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Fundy Trail
The Bay of Fundy has lots of scenic scenicness, so we did a scenic drive with lots of lookouts.
Most of the lookouts looked out over not-so-impressive views.
Like the Interpretive Centre Lookout, which gives you a great view of the interpretive centre.
You would be bored stiff if Kerri’s artisteic talent wasn’t hurting your eyes.
Some of them were really pretty though.
There were also educational signs, so we learned that this is a daisy fleabane, which can grow up to 5 feet tall. There is an old wive’s tale that the dried flowers can be used to get rid of fleas.
There were no educational signs for these orange flowers, so we remained uneducated.
Many of the rocks were pretty colours.
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The tides are so dramatic that the boats wind up a long way from the water at low tide.
At the end of the day we found some actual Park’s Canada scenic view chairs. The view was good, but not the most scenic in Canada.
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