Hello again -- Right now we're on Grand Manan Island, having come over yesterday on the Digby ferry. The fog was heavy all yesterday and we've had heavy rain today, but it's forecast to be sunny tomorrow so we should get some good photos before we leave. Several days ago, after we left the town of Truro, the "head" of the Bay of Fundy, we headed down the northwestern coast of Nova Scotia to the very tip, Brier Island on the end of Digby Neck which required taking two ferries each way. Here are some photos of our trip. In the first photo, you can see enclosures which are used for raising salmon. You can see in the next photo a sign, one of a great many we saw in the area, indicating that there is ... read more

Hi, All -- We've had several wonderful days around the Bay of Fundy, both the New Brunswick and the Nova Scotia sides. You probably already know this, but Fundy Bay has the highest tides in the world (at least they claim . . . ), topping out at around 55 feet on a really high tide. Some of the photos below were taken at low tide and you just have to imagine the same scene with 50 plus feet of water moving in within six hours. Some of the shots are from the Fundy Scenic Drive. Part of the road opened just last year and eventually they want to build it all the way to Fundy National Park. It took us over two hours to reach this scenic road although, as the crow flies, it would ... read more

KY – OH – PA When we arrived in KY last Saturday to visit with my cousin and her husband, Lyn and Brooks Atherton, the temperature was 102 degrees. Note the cows cooling off in the pond. The next day we saw Lincoln’s birthplace which is only a few miles from my cousins and the house that inspired KY’s state song, “My Old Kentucky Home.” In addition to their farm work (although they live in St. Pete most of the year), they have their arthropod collecting. Brooks is more into ants and beetles and macro photography while Lyn’s passion is spiders, especially jumping spiders. They collect specimens and send them to a FL state agency which tracks arthropods throughout the state. When possible, Lyn raises her spiders to adulthood as adult bodies can be classified more ... read more

Hi All, This is the end of the blogs of this's year's travel adventure -- some more photos of Acadia National Park in Maine and some shots of Roosevelt Campobello International Park on Campobello Island, New Brunswick. The Roosevelt estate and the extensive park are managed jointly by Canada and the US. When we were there in early September, the numerous flower beds were in full blooming beauty. The last photo in this blog is of a young man walking on the slippery rocks, barefoot, in the strong wind and crashing waves the day before Hurricane Earl passed by. This is the same place where a group of people got swept into the water last year and a young girl drowned. Makes one wonder . . . For you Trivial Persuit players, here's a list of ... read more

The last blog -- Longwood Gardens -- didn't get published for some reason. So if you want to learn about "pond platters," which are pretty amazing, click on "previous entry" after "blogs by Paula Hays" on the 3rd banner down or go to the end of this blog. On our trips, we dearly love to run into "est" things -- the deepest, the ugliest, the stickiest, etc. For example, one time we got a photo of a piece of the biggest cheese ever made. Another time we photographed the world's shortest bridge. Here are this year's EST items plus a few more quirky things. 1 - This is a photo of the entrance to the Saguenay Fjord, Quebec, CA, billed as the southernmost(EST) fjord in the world. But then I heard that there was also a ... read more