Over the North Mountain, on the Bay Shore

A little local humour behind the naming of this beach.

Annapolis County has ocean frontage, a little less than 80 kilometres (50 miles) on the Bay of Fundy, which is part of the Gulf of Maine, which in turn is part of the North Atlantic. Fishing did and still does define the communities on the Bay Shore.

Tide is out at Port Lorne. Perhaps this vistor is taking the air and the opportunity to make a holiday memory.

Nova Scotia styles itself "Canada's Ocean Playground." Annapolis County's working wharves were an experiential tourism experience long before that phrase came into common usage.

This hand-tinted view of Margaretsville is from about 1910.

Victoria Beach, Annapolis County, is just across the Digby Gut from Digby town, and Digby County. On a clear day here, or anywhere along the Bay Shore, you can see the City of Saint John on the other side of the Bay of Fundy. A ferry ride from Digby to that New Brunswick city takes around two and a half hours, usually.

A boat, brawn, and bravery: has the commercial fishery anywhere ever been anything less? A 1930s view of fishermen on the Victoria Beach Wharf, just across the narrow Digby Gut from the scallop capital of Canada, Digby.

Tide's out, dirt's in.

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