Not Perfect-Still Wonderful

Today is our last day at E & F Webber Lakeside Park, a small RV park north of Halifax.

We were booked into site A19, a spacious, shaded, full hook-up pull through site that was pretty level. But alas, no TV. So after spending one night there we went in search of an alternative.

We found site A09. It’s still a full hook-up pull through site, but small enough that Bud had to do a lot of wiggling to get the trailer on the level part, not going down the hill and not in the huge hole just past the right rear corner of the trailer. The main park road passes by the side and front of the site, so it’s not at all private. And, despite how it looked to our apps that locate the Direct TV satellites, still no TV.

Lake Charlotte is still a beautiful place to be.

Yesterday we played disc golf on a course about a half hour from here. It was just a little 9 hole course so we played two rounds.

The ground was very unusual to me, though I’m learning it’s common here. The brown you see is not dirt, it’s dried sphagnum moss. There were places if you got off the fairway you were in a bog and had to be very careful where you stepped.

Today we took a long drive to do a short hike. Nova Scotia seems like the inverse of Prince Edward Island. Instead of rolling farmland with small areas of rough land, we saw rough land everywhere with small areas of rolling farmland.

Most of the hike ended up along a logging road, it was pretty though, and Matey could be off leash.

Then we cut into the woods on this newly made gravel path.

We appreciate the work some volunteers had done, because the ground here is not level. Plenty of places to sprain an ankle!

Our goal was Fantum Falls. I took a video to show the volume and speed of the water.

You could see the falls pretty well…

but it was hard to capture it in a photo.

Since the trail to the bottom of the falls had ropes to assist you, we decided not to do that one.

I was thrilled to spot these ghost plants or Indian pipes growing on the bank above the falls. Monotropa uniflora is a flowering plant with no chlorophyll. It is a parasite on the mycorrhizal fungi that form a symbiotic relationship with tree roots. M. Uniflora takes the water and minerals the fungi provide the trees and the sugars the trees provide the fungi. Their range is wide but they are very uncommon.

This one was growing alone nearby. You can see the inside of the flower better in it.

So even with no TV and a hike that was mostly on a logging road and not being able to get to the bottom of the falls, rugged Nova Scotia is wonderful!