Day 10, Tuesday 30 September

Our first stop today was the UNESCO World Heritage site, Lunenburg, which is very pretty indeed but the weather was dull and miserable. We pottered along the quayside for a while, looking at boats, including the fishing schooner, Bluenose, which is an iconic Nova Scotia symbol. It's used as the design for the car registration plates, among other things.
I had a quick trip to a bakeshop before Ian and I met Keith for a coffee and cake overlooking the waterfront. After seeing pictures on the internet, I expected Lunenburg to be bigger, but it was quite a small town with many of its clapboard buildings painted with bright colours.
We had quite a long drive through the grey landscape to Kejimkujik National Park where we stopped for lunch at a visitor centre next to the Mersey River. Here the autumn colours were trying their best to put on a display for us, despite the weather.
As an alternative dinner suggestion, we called at a supermarket to see what we could find to eat on the ferry and we did find a salad bar offering a good choice. On to Digby for a bit of a wait before the "scenic" ferry journey across to Saint John with a chat to the owner driver of a quarter million dollar, brand new truck. He was on his way to Montreal for his twice-weekly trip with fish. On the ship, I spent a while on deck with Nicola and Bea until it got too cold and we went down to the restaurant.
After a shorter than expected trip, we didn't have far to go in Saint John to the hotel, which was in a bit of a wasteland of spread-about retailers. I had a bit of a swim in the hotel pool, where four strokes meant a whole length.