Wolfville and the Bay of Fundy

We had got some great advice from the different people that we talked to about our itinerary for yesterday. We ended up staying a bit closer to Wolf Phil instead of driving further out and I was really glad we did this. We saw everything we wanted in terms of the tides without adding several hours of driving to our day. It allowed us to see more and have a more relaxed pace.

Our wine guide had let us know that there was a farmers market on Saturday mornings so we headed there first thing when it opened at 8:30 Tons of vendors, selling all kinds of baked goods, food, stalls, fruits, and vegetables

A lady complimented my embroidery on my shirt and I was able to say thank you I did that myself! 😃 

We got dumplings and a sticky bun for breakfast

We ate them outside on a picnic table

After our breakfast, this whole female a cappella choir performed outside and it was quite entertaining. They had choreography as well

From there, we walked over to the Wolfville waterfront. The tides were low so it looks like a big mud pit.
 

This was the coolest thing they have a big wolf Phil sign at the waterfront and they have this little thing that you put your phone in and holds it at the perfect angle to take a picture with the sign so you can put the self timer on

The next stop we drove to one town over and bought some jerky that was recommended by our guy as well

We were going to have an early lunch at a restaurant that our Guide recommended, but it wasn’t quite open yet so we sat and enjoy the sunshine in a little

The restaurant was serving brunch. Trev got a breakfast sandwich with a side of seafood chowder and I got blueberry French toast, which was quite a bit larger than I expected it to be. I ate about half of my French toast and somehow Trevor managed to eat his breakfast sandwich, his seafood chowder with the mussels as well as the other half of my French toast

From there, we drove to Blomidon provincial parks where we had the opportunity to see low tide and walk on the ocean floor. This was such a cool experience and was pretty much impossible to capture how cool it was in the photos. It probably just looks like a big mud pit, but it was really neat walking on the ocean floor, seeing seashells and some dead crabs and stuff lots of seaweed.

There are these huge red cliffs all around also

It’s hard to convey the scale of the wide openness in the photos. We walked here for two hours and were really exhausted by the time we got back it was hot and sunny and when you were out in the mud flats, the sun was blazing down. You’d say let’s walk out to the edge of the water and that wouldn’t seem that far but you just be walking and walking and walking. I think we got over 10,000 steps just in these two hours walking around there and because you were walking through mud with rain boots on it was even more difficult of a walk our legs were sore at the end And we forgot our water bottle in the fridge at the Airbnb so we had nothing to drink, and we were dying of thirst at the end

There was a perfect little stream rate at the end near the stairs to get off the ocean floor, where you could wash the mud off your boots

We were sort of in the middle of nowhere so we were wishing we could find a corner store or a gas station for a bottle of water, but we didn’t have much hope instead we drove to this viewpoint that was about 15 minutes away, which was our next location

But lo and behold when we pulled up to the roadside look off, there was a little ice cream store just across the road that sold ice cream and cold drinks. I was hoping it was not a mirage because we were so thirsty and hot 😆 and finally, we had a sunny day hot enough where we actually felt like having an ice cream. Of course we had to try the famous Atlantic Canada Moon Mist ice cream.

From there, we went to a little nearby beach. It really looked very much the same as the last mud floods that we were on and we really were too tired to walk around there, so we just sat on the bench and drank the rest of our water and enjoy the sunshine.

From there, we Drove to Baxter‘s harbour this place was really neat and we wish we had gotten there a little bit earlier when the tide was lower so we could’ve explored all of the different rock formations and caves. We chatted with a couple who had been there for a while and they had loved walking around in the different areas and then staying to see how the tide was coming in.

At low tide, you would’ve been able to walk over and explore all those little caves and across the way

There was a waterfall and when we walked down, we noticed that we had about 6 inches of ground left where we could sneak through this little area and get closer to the waterfall into a little cave over there

We were there for probably about three minutes and by the time we turned around that 6 inches of land was almost gone. I was able to sneak through it, and Trev came about two minutes after me, and thankfully he was wearing sandals because his feet were definitely wet.

After that, we drove out to Halls Harbour, where they have Halls Harbour lobster Pound, where we knew we wanted to have our last dinner

Trev decided the work of the lobster was too much effort and ordered the lobster poutine

I enjoyed my lobster dinner so much last time that I got a full lobster again I enjoyed the previous one more and I think it was because this time I got garlic butter and the last time I had just gotten regular butter, you would think garlic butter is always better, but the regular butter just had such a delicious taste with the lobster. I liked it much better than the garlic butter.

From there, we drove back into Wolfville. We noticed that almost all of the Crosswalks have these orange flags at both sides where when you cross you’re meant to pick up a flag and wave it as you cross so that cars can see you

Later that night, I was able to try one while we walked across the street and will Phil on the way back to our Airbnb

Well, we got back to Wolfville. We wanted to go to church brewing Company, which had been recommended but when we got there, there was a half hour wait so we decided to walk down to the water to pass sometime. This was the same area we were at earlier in the morning with low tide, which was full of mud

Here is the comparison of low tide versus high tide

Then we walked along the Dyke along the water and the sunset was beautiful

By then our table was ready and we headed back to church brewing Company. I’ve taken these first couple of shots in the daylight when we originally went to get a table and we had to wait. This is a historic church that had been purchased in 2017 and converted into a brewery and restaurant.

It was part of the amazing race back in 2019 and I looked it up and realized I had watched that episode 😆 

Trev got a flight and I got a glass of the Nova 7 wine which is very popular in Nova Scotia and is made by Benjamin Bridge Winery that we visited

Then we headed back to our Airbnb and about a block before we got there I looked down an alley and laughed as I saw our wine tour guide, who also does a whole bunch of other kinds of tours, and was telling us about his ghost tours dressed as a ghost so he came out and we chatted with him for a few minutes and got this hilarious selfie

We had to leave our Airbnb early at 6:45 AM. This is a typical site we saw all around Nova Scotia, which was patches of fog everywhere you’d be driving and it would be perfectly clear and suddenly you would just drive into a full patch of fog where you could barely see in front of the car. Five minutes later it would be clear again.

And that’s it we’ve dropped our rental car off. They actually gave us $100 off because I told them that we had had problems with the door, not working the screen, not working and rattling and random noises coming from the car which was very nice of them I didn’t actually ask for or expect a discount. Through the trip, we listened to 2 1/2 audiobooks on all of our driving we listen to Hollywood, Ending by John Green, which is an author that both Trevor and I like that we listened to born a crime by Trevor Noah, which is non-fiction about a apartheid in South Africa hilarious book written by the comedian Trevor, Noah, and I highly recommend it to anyone. And lastly we listen to half of everything is tuberculosis by John Green also which is a history of tuberculosis and much more interesting than you might expect. Hopefully, I’ll have a chance to finish it on the plane ride home so we’ll have read three full books. That’s it for Nova Scotia next trip: Curaçao