Grand Pre' and Hall's Harbor

August 21  Eclipse Day

Today we drove from one side of Nova Scotia to the other.  This is the Bay of Fundy side.  Our GPS would not let us enter the address of the campground so we had to revert to a MAP, how archaic.  It worked though.

We did not realize how historic our camping area is.  This is where the Acadians lived.  They were a group of French people that came here and diked the area from the tides and created some of the best farm land in NS.  These folks wanted to remain neutral from the more aggressive French inland and the British, who were battling for more control.  The British came into the area and rounded up the men took them to the community church

Grand Pre Memorial Chapel

and put them on boats for over a month then let their families (most of them) join the men.  At that point the British shipped them to their settlements in their North American settlements.  This took place from 1755 to 1762.  Over 10,000 people were moved from the Acadian settlement (Grand Pre’).  There are over 3000 acres of land that the Acadian’s recovered from the sea.  Today it is beautiful land.

After we visited Grand Pre’ we drove

Anglican Church from 1760 

over to Hall’s Harbor to witness the low tide.  The tide in this little village averages 30-35’.  Looking at these boats laying

on the bottom is unbelievable knowing that in 6 hours they will be at the top of the tide.

This is such a beautiful area.  One lady came up to us and asked us if we would like to look at the eclipse, as she handed us some glasses to view the Canadian version of the eclipse (about 35% coverage.  Sorry we missed the hoopla in Cookeville with 100%.  It is hard to be in two places at one time.