Tomorrow is the last day of work in Nova Scotia and we will leave Wednesday with mixed feelings. I have loved it here...a quiet, beautiful place with great people; but we are ready to go home after such a long time. we will leave for 2 days at Prince Edward Island, then stop by friends,the Armstrong's, near Bangor, Maine and then by Sunday night we will be home.
Work camping has been a rewarding and fun adventure and we will treasure our experiences always.
Local managers, Pat and Patsy:
So after 7 straight days of work, we bolted towards the most northern tip of Nova Scotia, despite the cloudy, dreary weather. Long day but worth it! It is so isolated there...hours from anywhere...just felt like the edge of the world..and there was a single campground Right there on that edge.
(After getting back, our campground owner said several have died on these cliffs. The last camper got disoriented at night when he went out to pee and went over the edge:( )
And couldn't resist taking a pictures of these herons we saw on the way home. .Also have seen many eagles and hawks in this lovely country.
So it was another rainy day and Don's birthday, what to do? We decided to go to the Cape Breton Miners Museum near Sydney and we were so glad we did. coal mining was the main industry here from the 1800s to 1991. It stopped due to the expense of drilling under the ocean and due to numerous accidents and deaths. the museum is a small mine which is coordinated by retired miners. Our tour guide worked in the mines for 35 years. It was an hour tour showing a replica of the mine set up of the way it used to be in the 1800s, when many died from coal dust, gases and explosions.
It was so hard to hear the stories and actually feel the conditions: it was dark,damp, dirty and narrow. The ceilings went from about 5 feet + to 4.3 feet. both of us came out with hurting backs and knees from crouching most of the time. I can't believe in Africa and other 3rd world countries they still have those conditions, still with child labor...just like here. glacé Bay really was a Company Town...no money was given as pay but "checks" towards rent, groceries and other supplies all owned by the company town... hey never got ahead, but really " owed their souls to the Company Town".
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