Day 46. July 06, 2014. Sunday. Tatamagouche to Amherst, Nova Scotia.

After weaving among downed trees and getting past power company workers rebuilding powerlines after the hurricane, we birded the Wallace Bay area again. It was windy and the birding wasn't great, but we had a really nice time. I mostly looked for birds while Liz cleared down trees and limbs off the trail.

From there, we drove to Wentworth Provincial Park and did a bit of birding after lunch. Again, the birding wasn't great, but we did see a Chestnut-sided Warbler. We haven't seen one since 1988.

We then drove to the Joggins Fossil Beds Visitor Center on the shore of the Bay of Fundy. We arrived too late in the day to visit the fossil cliffs, but the museum was quite interesting. The fossil site is Carboniferous, encompassing the time when amphibians crawled out of the swamp and became reptiles. The site mostly has plant fossils (trees), but there are a number of fish, amphibians, the first reptile, and even some bug fossils.

With the Bay-of-Fundy tide coming in, we went to a tidal-bore viewing site hoping to see a wall of water come rolling up the bay, but we saw barely a ripple and were disappointed. We found another place where we can watch again tomorrow.

Late in the day, we drove to downtown Amherst and got a room at the Victorian Hotel. Some of the buildings here in downtown near the hotel were built in the 1890s time frame. This hotel isn't that old, but it feels pretty worn out.

Note: All distances, elevations, and other facts are approximate.
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