Hall's Harbour, Look Off, and Cape Split

We left our charming B&B today - A Seafaring Maiden.  It is owned by Bill and Ann Marie who simply could not have been better hosts.  Their home, built in 1881, was owned by a sea captain who's daughter, at 20 years old, sailed out with her father and his crew.  When they fell ill with smallpox, she piloted the ship across the ocean to Nova Scotia and was the youngest woman to do so.  Ann Marie is a descendant of that family!  The breakfasts were lovely AND delicious, they were so very gracious, and we cannot say enough good about our stay there.  A couple of pics:

One thing we have noticed is that the architecture in the Annapolis Royal area was lovely, reminding me of the old TV show The Ghost and Mrs. Muir.  When we toured in the Acadian region yesterday the architecture was much more down to business... not as flowery and lovely - just getting the job done.

Our plan today was to drive to Hall's Harbour where the tides are very visible.  Low tide was to be at 12:05 today, so off we went at first following our GPS - until she wanted us to head down an unpaved very narrow road.  Nope, not gonna do.  So out comes the map.  I am totally worthless in terms of direction but am surprisingly good at reading maps, so I got us to Hall's Harbour in time.  The tide did as it was to do, stranding boats on the floor of the sea.

You will notice the mechanism to allow the docs to float as the tide rises - approximately 30 feet in 6 hrs. - the boats are back in action.  Very much a fishing village, with the main business being the Lobster Pound, it has a very pretty but rocky beach when the tide is out.

Here it is easy to see how high the tide is when it's in...

Next up - lunch at the Lobster Pound.

It's an interesting setup.  You go into the gift shop, past the bins of live lobsters, select what you want and pay at the register taking with you a stick with a number and, if you choose to have a whole lobster, a pail containing your live lobster!!

This was NOT our lunch but the lunch of the man in front of us!  We opted for a lobster roll which was yummy!

My second of the trip, Bill's first!  Bill then decided to venture on up the road while we figured out where we were and how to get to where we wanted to go (no longer trusting our GPS in this area!)  He headed down an unpaved but decent road to see what we could see and we ran into some houses I had read about the day before!  There are supposed to be 4 of them, made from cement, but I only saw 2.  There is a box for donations if you take pics, so click click, drop in a toonie (the Canadian $2 coin) and off we go.

Then we decided to drive up to a place called Look Off, where you can see a large portion of the Annapolis Valley.  It is drop dead gorgeous!

This was a panoramic from my phone so doesn't really do it justice.  Just beautiful!  Across this street was this cuteness....

We were too full to have ice cream from the Look and Lick.  Of course I couldn't resist this...

We then headed to Cape Split at the very tip of the that portion of Nova Scotia.  Literally the road ends and there is no more road there.  There IS a hiking trail, but we were not up for an 8 km hike one way and instead just took in the absolutely gorgeous view.

Then we headed down the road toward Wolfville, and our next B&B.  As we neared town we ran across this bridge and again with the tide mostly out (now it was coming back in) it was quite a sight to behold.

So we had dinner in this area at high tide, and took these pics.  I tried to get the same shot for comparison but ... I had 2 glasses of wine so this is the best I could do.

The second set is zoomed in more, but it's the same place.  So we close out yet another fun day in Nova Scotia!