Today we said goodbye to Nova Scotia. We both definitely would like to come back here again, we didn’t even begin to explore it all.
On the drive towards New Brunswick, we took a brief detour to Mastodon Ridge, because honestly, we just haven’t seen enough super weird stuff on this trip. Apparently, not far away from this site they found a really good mastodon skeleton in one of the quarries. From this, someone got the bright idea to create this tourist attraction:
As if that wasn’t weird enough, they’ve surrounded this thing with mockups from the Flintstones cartoon:
We didn’t actually pay to go into this exhibit (I’m sure you can understand why) so I’ve basically got no explanation for the Flintstones thing.
After a bit more driving, we took a second detour to the Joggins Fossil Cliffs. They date back to the Carboniferous period, or ‘Coal Age’, which is before the dinosaurs. They’ve found the fossil remains of the oldest known reptile (which reminded me of a Komodo dragon, kind of scary looking). After touring the museum and supposedly learning about what to look for, we went down to the cliffs and took a walk.
The cliffs themselves are incredibly fragile looking – they warn you about random rock falls/slides, and you can definitely see why:
We walked around for awhile (on the ocean floor again – so cool) looking for fossils. We found a bunch of stuff, and we think they’re fossils, but to be perfectly honest, we have no idea. But we decided to rule on them being fossils anyway:
On the way back to the highway, we saw another bear. He was running into the forest so we didn’t get a picture.
Tonight is our last night in Canada, and we’re staying at this awesomely romantic B&B in St. Andrews, a little inlet off the Bay of Fundy. Maine is literally on the other side of this peninsula. This is a good way to (almost) end the vacation.