We were headed for the west end of NS and Yarmouth this morning but last night decided to drive north across the peninsula to Digby and use it as a base of operations for the next three days. Sue has found several stops she would like to make east of Digby and this will allow us to spend an extra day in that area. We will still drive down to Yarmouth and Cape Sable Saturday in the CRV and return here that evening.We had a relaxing drive across Nova Scotia with little traffic and decent roads. We arrived here around 12:30PM, hooked up and had lunch, and then headed back east to see Annapolis Royal and nearby Port Royal, the second European settlement in North America after St Augustine, Florida.
On the way we stopped at Bear River, the village built on stilts. We are back on the Bay of Fundy with its 40' tides and Bear River's level rises and falls twice a day. We arrived around 3:00PM near low tide so the building construction was exposed. We plan on stopping by in the morning near high tide to see the change in the river.
Our next stop was the Annapolis Tidal Power Project that provides 40 megawatts of power a day, 1/10th of Nova Scotia's consumption, by trapping the water above the dam at high tide and releasing it at low tide over a set of water turbines that generate the power. 
It is a great demonstration of clean renewable energy that is reliably generated twice a day. It needs a means of stroage to be a complete solution to the Provinces power needs.
Designed by its surveyor Samuel Champlain and settled in 1604 The Habitation played an important role in the settlement of Nova Scotia (Le Cadie or Acadia). It was fought over first by different French interests and then changed hands or was attacked 8 times in the next 140 years as France and England fought over the New World.
Interestingly the construction of the current Habitation site by Parks Canada was instigated by a Massachusetts resident, Harriet Taber Richardson who believed that since Jamestown colonists had destroyed the Habitation on a raid in 1608 that the US should raise the funds to restore it as a historic site of Canada. The Associates of the Habitation did raise funds and eventually sparked interest by Parks Canada who reconstructed the Site in 1940.
The Habitation was built not as a fort but by commercial interests as a fur trading post with the Micmaq Indians. The accommodations were quite comfortable and most of the residents were support people who maintained the facility and performed housekeeping tasks.
Leaving the Habitation we drove another 10 miles or so west on the peninsula to the east side of the Digby Harbor entrance. At this point we were 4 air miles from the campground and 38 road miles from home! 
The weather was perfect and we could also see New Brunswick 50 miles away. We returned to Digby for dinner around 6:00PM and called our daughter Laurie to wish her a happy birthday, on 9/11.
