Evangeline Trail and Digby

We left Yarmouth and drove the Evangeline Trail to Digby. Along the way I spotted these A frame cottages across the lake on a hill.

Only Jack and Martha and I spotted the Loch Ness Monster in the lake but here is proof that it existed.

We saw Saint Alphonse Church along the way.

The tide was out as witnessed by these boats on dry land.

this is Sacre-Coeur Church in Sauinierville. Note the Acadian flag.

Another large stately house.

This is St. Mary’s Church. It is the largest wooden church in North America. Services here are held in French.

The church was built in two years between 1903 and 1905.

The main alter, the stain glass windows, the scenes of the Stations to the Way of the Cross and the chandeliers were all imported from France.

There are 41 stained glass windows, some of which depict events in the life of the Virgin Mary to which this church is dedicated. The windows were shipped from France in Crates of molasses.

The organ was built by the Casavant Brothers from Quebec. It has 999 pipes and is one out of only six of its model in Canada.

The frames of the Stations to the Way of the Cross were hand carved by Stefano Gennette, an Italian-born sculptor who settled there in 1879. He was a master at the art of working with plaster of Paris.

Here is another picture of the low tide and a small lighthouse. You can see a blue boat on the right that is sitting on dry land.

This is the Saint Bernard Church. It is a massive stone structure that took 32 years to build by a small group of local people.

After we got set up at the Digby RV Park we went to Royal Fundy for dinner. Digby is famous for its scallops.

I caught Wayne smiling as he told Rich a story.

I finally got a picture of Chuck and Emelie together.

Mike and Patty also joined us for dinner.

And so did Karla and Rich.

After dinner we walked over to the Port of Digby Fisherman’s Wharf.

You can look out over the bay for a beautiful view.

These boats are scallop boats.

The cranes lift contraptions such as this over the side and then they scrape the scallops up off the bay floor and bring them up over the side in these unusual nets.

The side of the boat that they bring the nets up on is rusty and scrapped.

There were lots of locals fishing for herring off the docks and I caught a picture of one as I looked across the water at the town of Digby.

The sunset was beautiful looking out over Chuck and Emily’s coach.

We gathered at a Canadian couple’s fifth wheel for an impromptu musical evening. Martha brought her guitar as well and Emelie listened intently.

Here are Mike, Bruce, Laurie, Karla and Rich.

Here are Martha, Emelie and Wayne.

Later the gentleman brought out a fiddle and played some hand clapping tunes.

Even Penny enjoyed the music. Oops, I meant Trouble.