Hello Pictou & Antigonish
Harbor Lights Campground July 17-20

We left Digby this morning, but, not without getting a couple of pounds of their fabulous scallops for our freezer. We had great weather for traveling we traveled 465 kilometers very easy drive mostly two lane- as we left the Bay of Fundy we noticed the hills were getting a little steeper and more often and more trees and very green in fact several shades of green- very beautiful. We arrived in Pictou at the Harbor Lights Campground it’s a very nice campground and a passport America park- perfect- after we checked in we were taken to our site and given info about the area and ice cream bars – what great hospitality!

We are making Pictou our base for few days to do some touring and attend the Scottish Highland Games that are being played in Antigonish this weekend. The Highland Games are the oldest and continuous games outside of Scotland since 1863 this is their 145th. We will leave Pictou on Sunday and our next stop will be St Anns where we will make our base for a week or so and travel the Cabot Trail and other areas. Then it will be back to Pictou and take the ferry over to PEI stay in PEI about a week or so then do the Bay of Fundy from the New Brunswick side then into Maine and start heading west to California

We went on a very scenic drive on Friday we took route 337 which is nicknamed the mini Cabot trail and the scenery was spectacular. We found a nice overlook for a picnic lunch, the weather was pretty good a little warm but the sun was shining and that is we cared about.

On Saturday we went to the Highland Games this was a first for us and we both thoroughly enjoyed the games. The morning games were; Braemar Stone throwing, 56 lb weight for distance, there was piping and dancing competitions, tug o war that was very exciting the men’s division was 1700 lbs, my favorite was the Caber competition it was pole tossing the object was to get the pole to flip in a straight line, then the 56 lb weight throwing for height was thrilling and a little scary- I thought the athletes should be wearing a hard hat! I took a couple of videos I am going to try to get them to upload later

Next Stop Cabot Trail

For more pictures of the Highland game;

http://picasaweb.google.com/jcrobnik/AntigonishHighlandGames