The Blomidon Inn, Wolfville. Be sure to ask for a room in the main house. This is a beautiful old mansion (1870) that has been a modern inn since 1980. The original owner was a sea Capitan who lost this house in a card game.
The white line running from the foreground up to Rosanne, is a ribbon of quartz. The rock around it is softer and has eroded, leaving a long knife edge of quartz. The rock at Cape Split is riddled with these features.
We are not geologists, this whole field of rock and much of what we waked on looked like geometric block sized chunks of rock that had been precisely matched and then glued together. The photo doesn't show it well.
The woods were magical. Here the trail wanders between to large rocks. Various shades of green mosses and fir trees everywhere, I kept expecting to see a troll pop up or hear giggling nymphs. If you look closely, you might see one in this picture.
Dave stands under a rock.
A lot of what you see here would be under water at high tide. We kept getting off of the coastline trail and walking the rock at the edge of the bay.
The walk along the rocks at the tide line kept getting interrupted by deep shear cuts like this one and by vertical cliffs. This view is taken well in from the bay. It is about a 40' drop to the last rock you see, followed by a 60' vertical cliff to the bay.
It's hard to see, but Rosanne is standing on two large boulders wedged together at the top of another cut, forming a bridge.
Last shot taken from the shore. From here it would have been a difficult climb down 50 feet into the cove. This cove was about 1/4 mile wide and completely surrounded by cliffs. Backtracking, the only way out would have been cut off by the rising tide.
We thought that this was the tip of the Cape, judging from the photos we had seen. I am standing at the edge of a 100+ foot cliff. We had taken the shore trail - hardly used and difficult to follow - it took 5 hours to get here.
A the head of the cove in the previous picture, we found the real trail again. This is the mouth of the Minas basin. It is 5 km wide. The rip tide is visible off of the point - 8 knots at mid tide. An audible roar can be heard from the current.
This place is beautiful. We got there about 2 hours before the tide turned and couldn't wait. You could easily see the water rushing out of the basin, it looked like a 5km wide river. It must be an amazing sight to watch it turn around.