There is nothing like sleeping in a real bed and, this morning, I awake feeling great...all the better too after Golem and Tannis visit during the night.
Brenda's got coffee going...some cereal. I am able to get in a much-needed shower.
Around 11:00 or so, we're off n a tour of the Yarmouth area with Brenda as our guide. Brenda is a fascinating person...a retired school teacher, she is also an accomplished and award -winner poet, author, song-writer, photographer...and so much more. She is up on all of the history and geography of the region, and she is the perfect guide to all of the local sights that you would ordinarily never see as a tourist. I'm reminded of my good friend, Dick Zahorik, up in Eau Claire, Wisconsin...when you walk through town with Dick, and his wife Diane, everyone knows them. It's the same with Brenda here in Yarmouth
In Yarmouth, we stop at a local Arts Cooperative to chat with Brenda's friend, Annie, and I'm able to buy a nice numbered print of a local fishing scene. Then we're off on one of my favorite pursuits...lunch! We go to a local place, Joanne's Quick and Tasty, which is famous for their hot lobster sandwich...a pound of lobster between two thick slices of homemade brad topped with a lobster cram sauce...sublime!
After lunch, we're off a a journey though the winding back roads of western Nova Scotia...interesting old buildings, secluded beaches, remote coves...it's all fascinating.
No trip to Yarmouth is complete without a trip to the local lighthouse...certainly one of the most beautiful in all of Atlantic Canada...it does not get it's "due" over the more heavily-marketed lighthouse at Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia. It's part of a pattern here. Voting strength here in Nova Scotia is concentrated in the urban areas in and around Halifax...so the more rural areas to the east (Cape Breton) and west (Yarmouth) don't get a lot of attention. There used to be a ferry between Bar Harbor, Maine and Yarmouth that brought in an estimated $22 million in tourism-related revenue. A few years ago, the Nova Scotia government cut off the $12 million dollar subsidy for the ferry, and it closed soon thereafter...very sad.
Our whirlwind tour completed for the day, w head back to Brenda's for a snack of cheese, salami and nice ciabatta bread...washed down with several bottles of excellent wine.
Talk goes on again late into the evening...I'm the first to drop out for bed. Tomorrow, we've got a BIG day of whale-watching ahead.
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