Long Cove, Port Medway

Today we walked from Port Medway to Long Cove.

It was good to feel the warmth of the sun after a cold, wet week.

There is a little harbour at the end of the dirt road and Long Cove cutting inland.

Wire lobster traps were stacked up on the dock.

As well as the older styled wooden pots.

Our picnic spot had to be back at the limestone rocks,

with amazing views.

Apple and cherry blossom, plus wild azalea and bunch berry flowers, helped to add colour to our hike.

These tiger swallowtail butterflies enjoyed the heat of the track.

Crescent Beach, February 2015

Today we had an exciting trip to Crescent Beach. The La Have River was frozen over. But the ferry was managing to keep the crossing clear.

The sea was a solid layer of ice, except for the pack ice on each side of the ferry. The ferry dragged itself through the blocks of ice.

Just getting onto Crescent Beach was quite a feat. The sea ice and snow made a solid bank.

There were loads of tree patterns in the sand, and ice stalactites.

It was good to walk on the sand without the fear of falling on ice.

The ferry was still keeping the route open as we drove home along the river.

Inside White Point Lodge

When I visited White Point Resort in November last year, it was a music week-end, so I couldn’t really get any photos inside.

Today we went back for a walk there and had a look inside.

The fireplace is faced with White Point beach stone.

The building is a steel frame, but wooden posts and beams add detail.

You can see how the wood just abuts the steel and the wooden pegs are decorative rather than structural.

 

Strips of pine make internal dividing walls.

 

There are some pieces of folk art, like The Lobsterman, by Joe Winters. His ‘little people’ were destroyed when the old lodge burned down.

What about  Bird Bath?

Or this colourful chair?

In the Crow’s Nest are some wonderful old photos of the resort in the 50’s showing the massive tuna caught here.

 

The little pier and swimming platform must be in one of the lakes and not the sea.

Women in dresses for their archery lesson on the beach!

You can look down into the bar and lounge from above. The sea is right outside those windows.

There was a great smell of food, but it was too early for lunch and we had brought a picnic with us. On our next visit, we’ll sample the food.

Spring is here at last – well maybe!

This Easter week-end has marked the beginning of some warmer weather here in Nova Scotia. Yesterday we went to Kejimkujik Seaside, which is a National Park.

You can see our walk on Googlemaps.

http://goo.gl/maps/ND7gJ

We started out by walking the rocky shore  along Boyd’s Cove and MacLeod’s Cove.

There is a rough track in places

The sea was very blue – I did not touch up this photo.

Parts of the coastal track had been washed away the last time we walked here. Another path has been cut, a bit further from the shore, through the trees.

And the  boardwalk has been repaired in places or totally renewed, like this section.

Unlike Europe, the ‘history’ here is not very old. This is the ruin of the house of Hugh Cameron, a shepherd on St Catherine’s River Farm in the early 1900’s. But sheep farming here was a harsh existence and the land was eventually given to the Federal Government and became the Seaside Adjunct of the Kejimkujik National Park.

Yesterday, the bay was full of lobster boats, the better weather a pleasant change for these fishermen, who are only allowed to fish here on this part of the shore during the winter months! It has been a tough time for them – probably harder than sheep farming!

In my last post about this park, I added this photo of a wrecked boat that we spotted sitting high and dry on Little Hope Island.

There used to be a concrete lighthouse on the island until just after Hurricane Juan in 2003, when it collapsed.

This amazing photo was taken by Jeff Tutty of Hunts Point, Nova Scotia in August 2003 and the wrecked boat was already there!

Seemingly, the crew of the Lady Helen  fell asleep!!

I didn’t have my tele-photo lens with me yesterday, but the boat has gone and the rocky island is hardly visible above the water.

We continued round to the sandy beach

and walked as far as is possible.

Then it was back to the car – a total of 14 km.

The forecast for this week is back to freezing most days, so maybe Spring isn’t here yet.

If you’d like to see Kejimkujik in the summer, with the birds and flowers, you can look at the blogs I wrote in 2009.

https://queensincanada.wordpress.com/2009/07/09/kejimkujik-national-park-part-1/

https://queensincanada.wordpress.com/2009/07/10/kejimkujik-part-2/