24/06: Another Rainy Day
Category: General
Posted by: The Agnew Family
Today we are spending the day around the Canning area visiting several view points, beaches, waterfalls and harbours. The morning started with rain and fog so that slowed us down a little.
We went to the Look Off (that seems to be it's official name) and couldn't see past the hill we were standing on so we decided to go a little further up the road and do a bit of a hike while we awaited dry skies as promised by the weathernetwork.ca. The skies didn't totally clear and the fog didn't totally go away but it did mostly stop raining. Over the course of the day we drove by the Look Off a total of 4 times and were rewarded with 4 different views (OK 3 views and a non-view). None of them were clear but they were still interesting.
Houston's Beach is on MInas Bay so the bayfloor is red. It was a fine stone or sand that was different from the muddy red floor we had seen else where on the Minas Bay.
A field near Houston's Beach
We went looking for Black Hole Falls and didn't find it. We think we heard it but weren't willing to scramble over the rocks to look. We were impressed the Black Hole though, some amazing boulders there.
We drove done a road that was 2 tracks with grass growing down the middle and were surprise by this cute little cottage and a car in the driveway.
Baxters Harbour did have a really nice waterfall and some great rocks on the beach. I found information that indicated Baxters Harbour is a former fishing community. Today there is no pier.
Halls Harbour is an active fishing community and is home to the Lobster Pond Restaurant. It also has a water falls (which we didn't find and sea caves (which I think we may have found.
We went to the Look Off (that seems to be it's official name) and couldn't see past the hill we were standing on so we decided to go a little further up the road and do a bit of a hike while we awaited dry skies as promised by the weathernetwork.ca. The skies didn't totally clear and the fog didn't totally go away but it did mostly stop raining. Over the course of the day we drove by the Look Off a total of 4 times and were rewarded with 4 different views (OK 3 views and a non-view). None of them were clear but they were still interesting.
Houston's Beach is on MInas Bay so the bayfloor is red. It was a fine stone or sand that was different from the muddy red floor we had seen else where on the Minas Bay.
A field near Houston's Beach
We went looking for Black Hole Falls and didn't find it. We think we heard it but weren't willing to scramble over the rocks to look. We were impressed the Black Hole though, some amazing boulders there.
We drove done a road that was 2 tracks with grass growing down the middle and were surprise by this cute little cottage and a car in the driveway.
Baxters Harbour did have a really nice waterfall and some great rocks on the beach. I found information that indicated Baxters Harbour is a former fishing community. Today there is no pier.
Halls Harbour is an active fishing community and is home to the Lobster Pond Restaurant. It also has a water falls (which we didn't find and sea caves (which I think we may have found.