Beautiful afternoon in the Scotia Pines Campground.  Anne and I walked over smooth limestone, the beds vertical, at the point of land north of Halifax Harbor this morning watching flocks of migrating sandpipers.  We picked up my sister, Laurie, at the airport at lunch time and brought her home here.  The hurricane is passing by to the east and is providing a stiff breeze, lots of clouds, and very clear air.  We're glad its going because Anne and I are planning to boat with a group into the North Atlantic in search of seabirds tomorrow.  We hope to see Atlantic Puffin and Black Guillemot which would be North American life birds for us (actually Anne has seen the puffin but I haven't off of New Jersey).  We both saw both birds in England a few years ago.

Our drive from Cape Cod went well.  On the first day we had ugly weather and crossed a police chase near Boston, but encountered no traffic jams and reached Bangor Maine in the early evening.  We stayed there because Anne wanted to speak with children and others by telephone before entering the "dead zone" between Bangor and Canada.  We parked at zero cost at the Wallmart parking lot after filling the motorhome with cheap USA gasoline.

On Day 2, Thursday, we crossed the border easily.  Anne had found out that for ten dollars she could for one month add Canada to our cell phone.  So, she can keep on using the phone.  I would have been as happy if we turned off the phone for two weeks.  The storm was easing.  We stopped at St. John to see the tidal flow at the famous Reversing Falls to watch the flow of receding tidal water over the rapids in the heart of that town.  Then, realizing we could reach this campground that day continued hard to arrive in the evening.  We were pleased to find a handsome campground with rows of trees between the campsites. 

Yesterday morning we looked for birds and arrived at the creek at 11:02 a.m. to watch the wave of the tidal bore run up the channel followed by a torrent of tidal flow.  In one hour the tide goes from low to high over about four meters.  After that we bought Canadian currency and groceries and came home.  A great first day in Nova Scotia.