20/06: Switching Provinces
Category: General
Posted by: The Agnew Family
Today we leave New Brunswick and drive to Nova Scotia.
We've had 2 lovely days so I guess I can't complain that it rained most of today.
On the drive through New Brunswick we came across a privately owned park that allows public access. The park contained some farm implements, tractors and some home made pieces of "art" as well. Two examples are the "Tin Man" and "propane man".
Once we were in Nova Scotia we stopped at Joggins Fossil Cliffs, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. You've probably guessed that the cliffs contain lots of fossils. It in fact "contains contains an unrivalled fossil record preserved in its environmental context, which represents the finest example in the world of the terrestrial tropical environment and ecosystems of the Pennsylvanian Coal Age of the Earth’s history." (borrowed from their website). The above statement means scientists have gotten some amazing fossils from the site. There is an information centre that tells the history of the site with many of the fossils on display. You can also walk the beach and look for fossils. No we didn't find any fossils --- we wouldn't have been able to keep the fossils if we managed to find one.
The cliff where most of the fossils we found.
I was looking at one of the coal veins in the hillside. We really liked the black and gold rock that we found on the beach.
One of the several strips of rocks that went out into the water.
The beach with the remains of an old warf.
We've had 2 lovely days so I guess I can't complain that it rained most of today.
On the drive through New Brunswick we came across a privately owned park that allows public access. The park contained some farm implements, tractors and some home made pieces of "art" as well. Two examples are the "Tin Man" and "propane man".
Once we were in Nova Scotia we stopped at Joggins Fossil Cliffs, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. You've probably guessed that the cliffs contain lots of fossils. It in fact "contains contains an unrivalled fossil record preserved in its environmental context, which represents the finest example in the world of the terrestrial tropical environment and ecosystems of the Pennsylvanian Coal Age of the Earth’s history." (borrowed from their website). The above statement means scientists have gotten some amazing fossils from the site. There is an information centre that tells the history of the site with many of the fossils on display. You can also walk the beach and look for fossils. No we didn't find any fossils --- we wouldn't have been able to keep the fossils if we managed to find one.
The cliff where most of the fossils we found.
I was looking at one of the coal veins in the hillside. We really liked the black and gold rock that we found on the beach.
One of the several strips of rocks that went out into the water.
The beach with the remains of an old warf.