Nova Scotia pictures

Erin had four rolls of film developed yesterday, so we can once again provide a bit of relief from all the text. Today I’ll post some pictures from our recent trip to Nova Scotia. The first one is from my parents’ farm; the rest of them are from our last two days there, when Erin, my family, and I went to Long Island on Saturday, stayed the night at historic inns in Annapolis Royal (yes, ‘historic’ is an absolutely necessary word when describing things in Annapolis Royal, having been settled in 1605 by Samuel de Champlain and others, and, yes, plural for ‘inns’—we split into two groups so as to accommodate limited room availability at small inns), spent Sunday morning wandering the Historic Gardens, after which Erin and I took the early afternoon ferry to Saint John.

Erin is rather fond of the following photo:

NB: More photos below the fold.

The town across the water is Tiverton, on Long Island. We’re waiting for the hourly ferry to take us there.

On Long Island, we hiked the Balancing Rock trail to the coast. This is the coast, looking left.

And, to the right, the Balancing Rock:

Incidentally, in case you think that the rock is ‘balancing’ there because it is firmly attached to the rock it’s standing on, once you get close to the rock, you can easily see through between the two.

Feeling a sudden urge to leave my manly mark on the world like other idiotic males, trying to topple the rock:

Okay, not really.

Oh no! Two males!

The rose garden at the Annapolis Royal Historic Gardens:

Who says roses have to be double to be pretty?

Another of Erin’s favourites:

The requisite family picture:

Moving on, and out to sea. Well, to the Bay of Fundy, anyway.