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| Driving East from Pictou, the famous Sunrise Trail leads along the Northumberland Shore towards Amherst. Along the way one passes through a host of quaint fishing villages, rural settlements and swimming beaches. |
Toney River is one of the many Fishing Villages, where lobster boats are lined up along the docks.
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| Lobster Boat |
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| After fishing season, it appears that this lobster boat doubles as a summer cottage and BBQ deck |
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| Low tide, these harbours are small and apparently not deep enough for any sail boats; their draft would be too deep. |
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| Markers along the boat launch. |
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| Typical steeples church in River John on the Sunrise Trail, Nova Scotia |
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| Stone carving on a gravestone, erected for a sailor of 20 years of age. He was washed overboard from this very brig, and found in the ocean a few days later, his remains are buried here. |
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| Dwyer was the lost sailors name, and his gravestone tells his sad story. |
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| Nova Scotia, New Scotland - the Scottish Thistle appears in many guises... |
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| A small church in the village of Salem, also on the Sunrise Trail. |
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| A special grave - enclosed with a hand crafted wrought iron fence |
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A little further, River John, another rural community with quite a number of small churches and church cemeteries. Here a retired lobster trap serves a planter stand in an old cemetery.
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