Leaves Changing Color in Nova Scotia

We started out early from Halifax this morning, all 46 of us plus Blair, our tour director, and Gnaeus (spelling?), our driver. Distances are far apart in this part of the world, so much time is spent on the bus. However, the sights along the way are interesting. Photo: More leaves changing color.

Amherst, Nova Scotia

We took a break in Amherst, a town of many impressive large sandstone  buildings. Amherst was settled in 1764 by colonists from Yorkshire, England,  later joined by Loyalist refugees from the American colonies during the Revolutionary War.

Welcome to New Brunswick

We drove from Nova Scotia to New Brunswick, another of the Maritime provinces.

New Brunswick

A land of forests and sometimes hilly roads.

Hopewell Rocks

We stopped in New Brunswick to see the Hopewell Rocks, their shapes the result of thousands of years of tidal erosion. The rocks are on the Bay of Fundy, a bay that has the highest tides in the world––up to 52 feet (16 m). More seawater flows in and out of the Bay of Fundy with each tide cycle than the combined flow of all the world’s freshwater rivers.

Confederation Bridge

We took the eight–mile (12.9–k) Confederation Bridge from New Brunswick to Prince Edward Island. The bridge opened up in 1997 after a controversy as to whether to build it. Before the bridge was built, a ferry ran between the two provinces but only when the Bay of St. Lawrence was not frozen, which is its usual state in the winter. Having only the ferry between the two provinces isolated the residents of Prince Edward Island during the winter months and a number of them liked it this way. A vote was taken as to whether to build the bridge and the bridge won.

Only round–trips are sold and the tolls are paid when leaving Prince Edward Island and start at $45.50 Canadian for a small car. The other way to leave the island is aboard a ferry that connects the island with Nova Scotia and the tolls start at about $70 Canadian for a small car.

Prince Edward Island

An island of forests, farmland, small towns, and seaside and very restful and pretty.

Dinner

Caravan treated us to lobster dinners tonight.

I have put my photos of this day on a slideshow. Go to

http://www.peggysphotos.com/nova–scotia–to–prince–edward–island/

(Slide Shows, Canada, “Nova Scotia to Prince Edward Island”).