We took the main road down (trees trees trees trees) and drove into Lunenburg to look for the campground. Lunenburg is a coastal town and is a UNESCO site - unique architecture and civic design. We called in at the only campground we could find, and got directions to the actual Ovens campground, which was situation out the other side of town and down a bit....So I cannot grace you with photos of the lovely Lunenburg vistas - we'll really have to save that for another time!
We eventually found the campground - there were a few tents, but mostly trailers - big ole caravans. We located the neighbours (Shannon, Jason and wee William), gathered supplies and set off to do the Ovens walk before it got too hot. The walk took us along the cliff top and down into a series of tunnels and lookouts where we could see back into sea caves. 'The Ovens' are a set of three caves in a row that could be mistaken for pizza ovens if you ignore the water and squint a bit :) The walk was spectacular, and not terribly challenging for the kids - they loved climbing up and down the steps, and checking out the 'look offs' (makes more sense than a lookout, but is still weird in my head!) We saw a little brown grass snake! Despite all the people wandering around...
The area was hit by a gold rush in the 1860s and there are still people sifting through the sand on the beach. We had a bit of a half hearted look - the boys were VERY excited at the prospect of finding gold, but I suspect the beach has been well and truly picked over.. The rocks were great tho! We had a swim in the campground pool (goooorgeous!) before having some lunch and heading off to the beach. Every other person in Nova Scotia was at the first one we tried, and we ended up at all inner harbour beach, which we pretty much had to ourselves! We skipped stones and threw seaweed around while Amelia sat under the umbrella eating our peaches and helping herself to William's afternoon tea.Drove the long way home - more fabulous coast and awesome little beach cottages. All so very pretty!
In other news.. Matt has introduced us to lobsters... and we have discovered Gojis serve yourself yogurt ice cream with whatever toppings you want ! Amelia thinks Gojis is just FABULOUS...The kids are still very excited about squirrels - we see a few down at Alex's piano teachers place, while we hang around waiting for him :)
We spend a bit of time biking around in the car park just below the house - working Owen up to having enough confidence (and speed!) to try losing the training wheels. He's VERY risk adverse... There is just enough technical stuff around the edges to keep Alex interested and Amelia jsut enjoys tearing around and swinging on the school gate!
One of Matts workmates invited us round for a celebration to baptise his new fire pit the other weekend. He lives on the edge of one of the many lakes around the city so we had a wonderful time paddling (the kids) and gazing out of the water wishing we had a jetty! The fire pit was awesome too - kind of a big permanent open brazier with a seating platform around it :) the dude who invited us is a bass player and his band played a couple of sets - much to the kids delight! We were getting ready to head home when the band took a break and they cracked into fireworks! They found the kids some sparklers so we had happy campers all round :)
Still no racoon - funny these things are supposed to be as common as house cats. We've seen wild turtles and a snake but no raccoon....
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