Time to head south again along the west coast of Nova Scotia (the part along the Bay of Fundy). This time we went down to the port of Digby--a place known for its scallops. And as a haven fro the British Loyalists escaping the colonies after all that nastiness of 1776-1781.
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| Plaque at Loyalist Park |
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| Fishing boats in the harbor |
A short distance out of Digby it the Prim Lighthouse. A beautiful spot to sit and watch the bay, see the fishing boats and ferries enter and leave the Digby harbor or to enjoy the wildflowers.
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| Prim Point Lighthouse |
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| Entrance to Digby Harbor |
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| Some of the shelving rocks the lighthouse was built to warn about. |
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| Wind-blown trees along the coast. |
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Not far up the coast from Digby is Fort Anne, Canada's first national historic site. It was a French fort built quite a bit before The Citadel. Not a lot of stone used here. It's basically an earthen works fort.
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| The headquarters was undergoing some renovation. |
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| Storage building made of stone and mortar. It's sunk into the ground to protect it from cannon balls. Looks like they might roll right over it. |
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| Again with the steep sides. Any attacker would be out of breath when/if he reached the top. |
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| Cannon placed on the walls could fire out to the river or sown along the ste\ep slopes of the embankment. |
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After Fort Anne we again made our way back to our campground.
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