Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Day 24 - Sightseeing around Maitland, Nova Scotia

Day 24 – Sightseeing around Maitland, Nova Scotia

We woke up to a cloudy sky with very light drizzle coming down. As we made plans for our day it stopped raining and we decided to take it a bit easy today and not do too much.
First we went to the local store for some groceries and like many stores they had a gift store but also a Christmas store. We took our time looking around and Leo also took some pictures of the store.

After we went to see Burncoat Head, another park and … lighthouse. We watched a video about the Bay of Fundy ,which gave us more ideas about things we wanted to see and do. After this we went down to the beach and explored it for a while.

Then it was on our next stop, the Fundy tidal bore (wave), which we unfortunately were about half an hour late to see it happen due to conflicting information we received about its timing. We will have to come back here in September to try and catch it then. By the sounds of it it is something you have to see.

The rain had stopped in the meantime so we walked around the town of Maitland for a while to take in the historical houses which are still standing here, many of which are being restored.

This is about what we did today other than feed and play with the local cat, which has 4 cute little, kittens hidden underneath a shed. They are very friendly, however, and will come out to be petted. We will have to work hard tomorrow to resist the urge to take one along, as was done by another camper a day or so ago.

Although the weather was not the greatest Leo did take some pictures, which can be viewed here.