Origin: 1 Chipman
Hill, Saint John, NB
Destination:
Digby, NS, Harmony
B&B, 111 Montague Row
Route
Description:
We cycled around the harbor on the Harbor Passage and a few city streets to the ferry terminal (about 6.5km). Ferry left at 8:00, arrived in Digby about 10:15. After following the obvious route into the center of town and our B&B, we explored town and waterfront on foot and unburdened bicycles.
Sunny, blue skies, pleasant temperatures.
We were on our bicycles at 6:30 joining early joggers on the Harbor Passage (bike-pedestrian trail going half way around the harbor). It cleverly weaves its way around and through waterfront obstacles and offers attractive landscaping and stopping points. Exiting the passage, we passed the overlook from which we had watched the Reversible Falls yesterday -- indeed they had reversed.
At the ferry terminal, Natasha behind the counter recognized us as the cyclists she had spotted in the pouring rain in Rothesay on Tuesday. We don't blend in wearing yellow! We and our bicycles went down the ramp first and alone into the cavernous hold of the Princess Acadia. On deck and leaving the harbor, we had flashbacks to our Martha's Vineyard ferry crossings. No whales, but good conversations: Acadians, Quebecois, education, salmon farming, the debate about which explorer landed first, and the journey to the Maritimes and later to Sierra Leone of Black Loyalists during the American Revolution. One passenger proposed her theory as to why we have found people to be so talkative here: After being house bound by so much snow this past winter, she says she can't stop talking now with the nice weather. All we know is that we are the beneficiaries.
"The world's scallop capital." We're here, it's beautiful, it's Digby.
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