A Day Of Surprises

The first surprise came when I tried to take a picture before we left Digby this morning, only to realize the battery in my camera was dead. I went back into the B&B we had just checked out of where the proprietor was kind enough to let me plug in the camera while we went to check out one of the stores downtown. The camera got enough of a charge that I was able to photograph deer at Kejimkujik National Park; alas, no moose... A second surprise was the phenomenal fungi on a tree stump (see the photo Ginny posted); it was incredibly beautiful! A third surprise was our hike around a lake in the park (3.2 kilometers--essentially 2 miles), the surprise being that I was able to do it without collapsing or having the voracious mosquitoes carry us off. The biggest surprise of the day, however, was "the rescue at sea" (see picture). Ginny was the first to spot the sailboat that was in trouble. Then we both told our harbor tour guide that the sailboat off our starboard side was seemed to have capsized. He immediately headed our craft toward them; two other sailboats also began to converge on the scene, one of which rescued the three fellows in the water (the big sailboat had a below decks space where they could warm up) and towed their craft back to the dock in the harbor. We fished a few of their floating belongings out of the water, and headed back ourselves. It's been an exciting day!