09 - Church Point, Nova Scotia

July 11, 2017 - On Monday, July 10th, we were up at 5:00 AM packed up the rig and left Rockwood Campground at 6:00 AM.  Drove about 5 miles to the ferry for Nova Scotia and got there by 6:10.  Unfortunately the ferry office didn't open until 6:30 so we had to cool our heels for awhile.  Once they opened, they measured the length of our RV and then gave us boarding passes and had us line up with other non-commercial over-sized vehicles.  Then about 7:40 they started loading the ferry and we drove down the loading ramp into the bowels of the ship.  Here is what it looked like.

Never did see the actual ferry but here is a photo from the web site so you can see what it looks like.

 We parked, locked up the rig and then went up to the main deck to get some breakfast.  Did some exploring and here are pictures of the lounge area and the open deck in the stern.

We arrived right on schedule in Nova Scotia and drove off the ferry and then headed south to find our next campground.  We will be staying in the Belle Baie Campground in Church Point.  We had entered the address  off the campgrounds web site into the GPS and followed its direction.  Something didn't look right as it had us heading away from the water and I thought the campground was on the water.  In addition, there was a sign for a campground pointing towards the water.  However, we dutifully followed the GPS direction and ended up in the middle of nowhere.  So we back tracked and followed the signs and shortly arrived at our campground.  Turned out the address I had was the home office of campground owner and not the campground itself.  Beautiful location right on the water.  Here we are set up at our campsite.  The water behind us is St. Mary's Bay which part of the Bay of Fundy, home of the world's highest tides.

This was a rest stop.  We will stay here for 2 nights with nothing to do but relax and catch up on this blog.  Neat church with an interesting steeple in the town of Church Point.  Here is a photo of the steeple I took from our campsite.

If you've ever read Longfellow's poem, "Evangeline", this is the area known as Acadia where the fictional Evangeline was born.  The original population was French and Catholic and when Britain took over the area in 1713, they forced the French Catholics to leave and most of them moved to New Orleans and today are know as the Cajuns.  There is an Acadian flag and a lot of the RVs in the campground were flying it.  This is what it looks like.

When we were making our reservations for campgrounds in Nov Scotia, we found that availability was limited.  What we found out is that most of the campgrounds are heavily booked by seasonal campers, campers who rent a site for the entire season, year after year.  Here is an example of a seasonal camper that obviously is not going anywhere.  When the campground closes for the winter, they winterize their rig and then come back next year.

The shoreline behind us faces west and so we hoped we would get to see a great sunset, however, clouds interfered so it wasn't as good as we hoped.  Here are two photos, one a close up of the sunset and the other a wider angle shot so you can see the cloud formations.

The Bay of Fundy is famous for its tides and while the really massive tides only happen at the north end of the bay they were still pretty significant here.  Here are 2 photos, the first taken at high tide and the other at low tide.

Tomorrow we head for Lunenburg which is only 180 miles, so we will be doing a lot of sight seeing along the way.