Yeah, just a direction. Or an origin. When I lived in the Netherlands, “southwest” usually meant rain and hard wind. Nothing good comes from the southwest.
As you should now know, I live in Nova Scotia, one of the smaller provinces in Canada. While the province may be small, the distances are still quite extensive.
Take the distance from my house to Halifax, for example: 143km. Quite the trip to go to Costco. Or, if I want to go to the other side, 160km to Yarmouth, the largest southernmost town in Nova Scotia. Of course, there is Barrington at the southern tip of the province, but there is hardly anyone there. Interesting place, though.
The rocks of Cape Forchu
However, this time, my plan was to go to the southwest part of the province, one of those areas where you never go unless you are curious. The road to Yarmouth was straightforward, just an hour or so driving. Kidding! A bit less than 2 hours. That’s where the trip I had in mind started.
Cape Forchu Lighthouse
Yarmouth, or close to Yarmouth, is one of the more interesting lighthouses of the province at Cape Forchu. A lighthouse with a shape that I have not seen elsewhere.
The rocks of Cape Forchu
Since there is nobody ever posting anything on Social Media about this area, I thought it would be just woods, rocks, cliffs and sea. It’s where the mouth of the Bay of Fundy starts, so rugged cliffs should be there, right? Nope.
Port Maitland
With the right temperature, you could imagine yourself on the beaches of the Mediterranean. Sandy beaches with rocks here and there, others are rocks with sandy patches.
Mars? No, Port Maitland Beach
The rocky nature of the beach with the sand in between hints at a fairly quiet “climate” on the beach, with times of high water taking away the sand and reshaping the beach in the process on a regular basis.
Rock sediment
The rocky bottom that does not move is also very interesting.
What is very interesting to see. Vertical layers of rock show off the bottom of the sea from millions of years ago. Some layers are harder than others, which makes them break off into flat stones rather than into rounded rocks.
Eglise Ste Marie, Church Point, NS
A little more to the west in this region, you’d believe yourself in France. The Bleu-Blanc-Rouge of the French flag is proudly displayed everywhere, road signs are in two languages, and town names are distinctly French. Oh, there is also a star in that flag, making it distinctly Acadian, not French 
. And while Nova Scotia is filled with churches of all denominations, the churches in this area are much bigger and only of one kind…
Digby Harbour
Once you pass the region, you end up in Digby, the scallop capital of the world. We went for a good measure of those after the long drive and before another 120km back to the house.
Until next time…