To the world at large, there is only one popular trivia question about Nova Scotia: "Where are the world's highest tides?" The answer is the Bay of Fundy, where boats sit forlorn on rocky harbor beds awaiting the fabled Tidal Bore--a massive wave preceding high tides which raise the water level nearly 60 feet.
So we traveled east from our previous stop in Annapolis Royal ... only to arrive at low tide. Can't win 'em all. But we enjoyed walking the stony beaches, shopping for cheesy trinkets, and holding our noses while impossibly fresh lobster was served to tourists scarcely 30 yards from the boats that brought it in. It's tough being allergic to seafood in Nova Scotia.
Battered old boats. Miles of rock-strewn shore. Weathered men in mackinaws and galoshes, wheeling ashore a mother lode of lobster and fish. Not to mention the occasional isolated house, sitting on a craggy bluff overlooking the Atlantic. If that's not the stuff of a Harlequin Romance, I don't know what is. And it's all on display in Nova Scotia, where avid stone-skippers never run out of rocks (below), or fabulous sunsets (below, left).
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