Back to Nova Scotia

Caro has been feeling a bit sick every once in a while and last night she took a turn for the worse getting little sleep and feeling nauseous.

We decided to make it a day of driving back roads although at times I thought we should go straight to Halifax and do day trips from there depending on how Caro was feeling. Caro was feeling poorly at times and not so bad at others while we were driving today.

We drove the center part of Moncton which was nice and from there hit the 4 lane divided until we got back to Nova Scotia.

The first stop was a place I had never heard of but was mentioned as a UNESCO world site, called Joggins. Here is a beach that contains the worlds most important fossil site of the Carboniferous period ( 299-350 million years ago).Why I don't recall hearing of this place is beyond me. It is world famous (and is in fact mentioned by Charles Darwin in his "Origin of Species" book). Caro was feeling too sick to take a beach tour that was included in our museum entrance so she slept in the car and I went. OMG OMG there are fossils everywhere and while you can't take any home, you can pick them up and drop them off at the museum. The tour guide showed us a few and the first photo below is a plant that is still part of the beach cliff. It won't be long before it is part of the beach though!

The second photo needs some explaining. The two track marks on the flat part of the rock are of a millipede walking and are the right and left side of the same animal! I.E. it was about 6-8 inches wide and the guide says the animal would have been about 5-6 feet long!

This geologic era was pre-dinosaur and here at this very beach is the first fossil found of the earliest reptile ever discovered!

Joggins is quite a ways off the main road so we drove back to the highway and drove a bit before turning off to Springhill. I wanted to see if Anne Murray would wave at us but she wasn't around (ha ha).

We continued on highway 2 down towards the coast and then continued along the ocean until Truro. The road was slow going with towns and curves keeping us from getting anywhere quickly. I made the decision at Truro to discontinue the coastal route as it was mid afternoon already and I wanted to get to Kentville or Wolfville for the night. We took the 4 lane divided down to almost Halifax and then another 4 lane divided up to Wolfville in probably only 90 minutes. We drove into Wolfville (a small city containing Acadia university). This town was spectacular!!. Beautiful homes and large manicured gardens all well looked after. By now we started looking for places to stay in the area and everything was booked. It was extremely frustrating as it became obvious within about 30 minutes we were not going to get anything nearby. We decided to head back to Halifax but while on the way back Caro found a Super 8 in Windsor so we headed there. The price was $155 plus 15% tax and there were only two rooms left so we had to pay it otherwise it was back to Halifax (45 minutes) and I was tired and grumpy! We had supper at Timmies to help offset the hotel cost.

Check out the room though! It was perfect for us and a great way to finish our day!

Caro had a Jacuzzi bath and is feeling better than earlier so it looks like our trip around the southern part of the province is a go!