Archive > August 2001

Wolfville and Grande Pre

Wolfville now has a new notoriety for me. Sure, it will forever be known as the place where I went to university, but Wolfville is the only place in the entire Annapolis Valley that we could find real Lattes; and, we drove all the way to Wolfville to experience said sumptuous latte (or three) and [...]

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Annapolis Royal

Tidal Power The trip to Annapolis Royal started off with a tour of the tidal power plant. Tidal power itself is pretty impressive and Nova Scotia has the only salt water generating system in North America, which harnesses sea water from the Bay of Fundy. The Bay is known to have the highest tides in [...]

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Beach Meadows Beach

Today’s journey was out to Beach Meadows Beach — a lovely white sand beach just past Port Medway and Brooklyn on the South Shore. Chris wanted to do some beach time before going back to the valley and this was definitely be his chance to get it. The beach was relatively empty because Nova Scotianers [...]

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Argyle

On one of our “graveyard” trips I dragged Chris to Argyle in hopes of finding the church and churchyard where the McKinnon “original ancestor” is buried. My grandfather visited the site many years ago and found the grave, and so now Chris and I were doing the same. The only problem was that upon arrival [...]

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Horseback Riding

We arrived in Nova Scotia at 6am after a sleepless night on the plane. Up until this point my friend Michi had been very secretive about what we were going to do after she picked us up at the airport. She was there waiting for us at 6am, and was as secretive as she had [...]

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