Puto post: Lunnenberg

Fuji Superia 200 and minolta sr-t 101. 

A day before we left Nova Scotia we were toured around by bus to the coastal areas of the province. We had lobster at the Belliveau Cove. I didn't quite enjoy it because it was a lobster dinner without steaming rice and I am very used to eating crustaceans with steaming Filipino rice. We also had to dip it in melted butter which, given the very "saucy" taste of myself (and the general filipino) is too bland. the rest asked for vinegar and fresh garlic and were provided a cider vinegar and fried garlic instead. For dinner, we had a makeshift buffet table and makeshift chairs and coffee table from crates used to hold lobster. We had dinner at a lobster farm. The lobster farmer is a friendly host who made us pose with the huge lobsters he kept in the tubs at a comfortable 2 degrees centigrade water temperature--the same water temperature of the atlantic ocean at this time of the year. if it gets warmer than that, he said, the lobster would start to molt and hibernate, and can never be sold until they are able to grow their shells back. so while awaiting for shipment, he tries to give them the comforts of home. 

Belliveau cove is rural, and french-speaking (or at least clareville is). In fact, other than Halifax, the rest of Nova Scotia is rural. there's a nostalgic feeling to it and you can level your imagination up by thinking something creepy, like getting lost in the middle of the pine forests or the wetlands. Belleveau is at St. Mary's Bay, the other side of the Bay of Fundy. This part of the world, Bay of Fundy itself, has the most interesting inter-tidal occurrence. in Digby alone, the tide can go as low as 30 feet. Fishermen had to tie their boats with ropes long enough to allow their boats to go with the ebbing and not dangle on harbor. The inter-tidal zone is so expansive if the same thing happened in Guimaras Strait (never mind the DEPTH, only the distance between the provinces, I mean) people from Iloilo can easily walk to Guimaras during low tide. Imagine that. That's how wide the intertidal  zone in Bay of Fundy is (in some areas of the bay tidal patterns can be about 15 meters/50 feet). More on Bay of Fund's intertidal zone here.