Yarmouth, NS

Rain, rain. We left Cruiser in the campground and headed to the Yarmouth County Museum hoping that the day would clear up; after two wonderful hours looking at paintings of ships, shipbuilding tools, ship décor, First Nation relics, lighthouse relics, musical instruments, carriages, toys- you’ve got the idea: museum artifacts – it was still raining so we headed to the Cape Fourchu lighthouse anyway; did the inside memorabilia but really couldn’t walk outside on the slippery rocks; had tea and lobster roll at the café. Then drove to Stanley’s Lobster and received a wonderful tour of the area where the really, really hard-shelled lobster are kept, cleaned out (they aren’t fed for three months so as to clean out their innards), and shipped to Boston and internationally; these are really special lobsters! This tour also included a walk to the beach where they have gatherings and feasts. We had just eaten or we sure would have had Brian W. prepare us a feast; we also had a great conversation with him; love these Canadians! Now we are sitting in the library using a guest pass to do wifi. The rain is supposed to last a few more days so don’t know how much we’ll see along the way. ‘Til later…
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Left Digby and ½ hour later we reached St. Bernard and the granite church that seats 1,000; it was constructed between 1910 and 1942, one layer of granite each year; quite impressive; the stations are of pewter; the pews are magnificent wood. Just down the road in Church Point we toured the museum in St. Mary’s Church, constructed (between 1903 and 1905) of wood in the form of a cross 190’ long and 135’ wide with an impressive 185’ spire; the museum had exquisite chalices, ciboria, vestments, and such from the 1800’s; the stain glass windows are magnificent and many. Website http://www.baiesaintemarie.com/ste-marie The campus of Nova Scotia’s only French-language university, Universite’ Sainte-Anne, is adjoining and as a center of Acadian culture plans to open a new Rendez-vous de la Baie in the next month. It was just a few more miles to Yarmouth. Today we visited the Firefighters’ Museum of Nova Scotia exhibiting almost every type of fire engine used in NS from the 1800’s to the 1930’s.