Nova Scotia - Day 4

This was probably my favourite day of our trip!!

We went to a place called "Blue Beach", which is apparently known only to the locals... it was recommended by the owners of the B & B we were staying at because they often go there to fish. It is a rare beach made up of shale, where prehistoric fossils may be found and picked up just by walking up and down the shore. A local expert on the fossils had set up a tiny museum where he displayed some of the better fossils he had found. These included prehistoric tetrapod amphibians, insects, fish, etc. There were also fossils of rain drops, tree branches, waves, leaves, and worm tubes - the tunnels of worms in the dirt. We found several of these fossils just on our hour walk, including a tree branch, fish scales, rain drops, waves, and worm tubes. But we couldn't bring them all home. We kept a stone with the tree branch and fish scales, and another with worm tubes.... that is the picture below... the worm tubes. Unfortunately, it was conficated by customs on our way home! So this is the picture I took of it right before they took it away from us in the airport. Hehehe
We had quite the hike to even get down to the beach! And of course we had the stroller with us (seemed like a good idea at the time) and had a very steep and rocky path to the beach.
So while we were at the museum I asked the fossil expert guy where the washroom was, and he said he didn't have a washroom for the public, but that there was a porta-potty just before you climb down "the hill", so off we went.

This is what I expected to find:

However, this is what we actually found:

Deep in the woods we found the creepiest outhouse I have ever been in.
It was VERY dark, but the wide cracks between the logs gave just enough light to show me that you didn't want to know what was crawling around in there! Creepy.
I will never complain about a Honey Bucket again!
Heavenly, in comparison. The tulips are a nice touch :)

So anyways, back to Blue Beach... here are some pics of the kids playing in the water,
and looking for fossils.

My sister, Veronica, setting up her sweet camera.

Jason had the afternoon off, so we met up with him and had lunch, then headed out to Blomidon to see the beach and the big cliffs!!! This is what I really wanted to see the whole trip.
The tide was going out when we got there.

High tide was at around noon every day, and low tide was at 6pm, but then would fill up again by midnight, so it really filled up and emptied out twice a day. We got there around 3 which turned out to be perfect timing as the tide had begun to go out, but you can see just how far it goes!

The red sand was more mud than sand...

It took 2 washes of tide with bleach, along with oxyclean, spray and wash, and Clorox color-safe-bleach to get the stains out of everyone's clothes....

and worth every second!!

There were waterfalls running down the cliffs all along the seashore!

We saw this view while driving back and tried to find a way to get to it, but never found the way... so it will have to be admired from afar!It was cool to see the boats in the harbors banked on the sand when the tide went out!!!

We saw a LOT this day, and it was exhausting, but so much fun!!!!