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script on yesterday’s blog: For
obvious reasons we stopped for dinner at a restaurant called “Joe’s”. When we sat down our waitress told us
that it was spaghetti night and servings were only $2.88 with the purchase
of a drink. Since most of our
meals have been expensive on this trip, we thought that we were going to
get off cheaply. So we each ordered
spaghetti and a beer. Only when the
bill came did we realize that our beers, at $7.00 each, were more than
twice the cost of our meal.
o Tidal bores are
the phenomenon in which the leading edge of the
incoming tide forms a wave (or waves) of water that travels up a river or
narrow bay against the direction of the river or bay's current. Some tidal bores have been reported to be as
high as several feet and resulting in a high tide that can be 50 above the low
tide level.
We
asked several people where the best place to witness the tidal bores was and
got a different answer each time we asked.
Even our internet search produced more options. We chose one that could be gotten to by
bicycle. From Wolfville we headed north
along the
On our return trip we stopped at the Blomidon (short for
“blow me down”) Winery. There Janet, the Winery’s retail manager offered us
samples and told us about the winery. Blomidon Winery is a boutique winery nestled on the shore of the Minas Basin, near the community of Canning. Their first vineyards were planted in 1986. At that time, the owners sold all of the grapes and did not produce any wine. After some tumultuous years of ownership, the property was sold to new owners who were responsible for constructing the winery and extending the vineyard plantings. The Blomidon Estate Winery label was created in 2002. Since then the property has been resold and the current owners have expanded the facilities and increased the production of the winery.
On the
way back into town Joe broke his front derailleur cable so we searched out a
bike shop for a replacement. Joe had a
spare, but didn’t want to be without one along the Cabot Trail. We found a place called Valley Stove and
Cycle. That is correct, stove and cycle. In the bicycle off season they sell wood burning
stoves. According to the manager, the store was first opened in 1978 to sell
wood stoves. Then, when the first mountain bikes rolled into Nova Scotia in
1980,” they were immediately hooked and realized bicycles were the perfect
complement to their stove business.”We purchased a new cable and fixed Joe’s bike. Once again we are drinking wine as we write. Tonight we are drinking a bottle of Blomidon’s 2011 red wine called Blow Me Down. Finally, the gray skies opened up this evening and it is raining. We are happy since our ride is over and the local residences are happy because they have had a very dry year.
We think we recognize "Joes" from our trip - however we were not privy to $2.88 spaghetti. We probably had a 5 dollar beer.
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