Fort St. Marie de Grace was
founded in 1632 and became a lighthouse in 1876. This deal garden site will remain a forgotten art of our history unless you wander by the quaint village of La Have and look in. We got lost on the surrounding
back roads and blundered onto Route 103, then back to Blandford. We ended our trip with a pleasing beverage on the deck while enjoying the ever-changing, always unique, view of the ocean – and a sumptuous fresh fish dinner. Day 3 was another great ride. It
started with a continuing discourse on the history and the fort we saw the previous day, so we headed for the Bay of Fundy shore. We rode through the incredibly
rich Annapolis Valley, then bounced through Windsor on route 14 and hit route 1 (The Harvest Highway). That took us into a land of rolling hills, orchards, vineyards, greenhouses and gardens while we played “spot the vintage car”. We booted down these great paved rally roads (just ask all the bikers we saw), then stopped in Wolfville. We were totally enthralled with it. We kept describing it as “SUCH a nice place!” Bridgetown was next. Then we
visited Port Royal National Historic Site, the most intriguing I have ever seen. We spent hours wandering this 1605 trading/fortification replica and
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even learned that the decorative finials on the roofs were there to scare away evil spirits. This is the site where Champlain
founded the “Order of Good Cheer” (what we’d call “Pubbing with Friends”). We went past the Annapolis Tidal Generating Station to Annapolis Royal to
visit Fort Anne, the first Canadian National Historic Site. They say this site is the most fought-over fortification in Canada. Totally enthralled with history, we wandered off to Vicki’s Seafood Restaurant for a dinner of clams and fish cakes. Day four was a bust, sort of. We
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