Today was another good day, we were going to go to my nieces today , we could not get a hold of her right away, so we wanted to go whale watching while we were out here, so I had went to see the clerk to see if there were any places to charter out towards Darlenes in the Lockhartville area, there was nothing out that way, so we had not heard from Darlene yet and ended finding a whale watching charter right near where we are today in Digby about 45 min away. The end result was that at 12:30 we were on a ferry heading to pirates cove to get on another boat to whale watch. With the timing being of essence, we had to boogie to meet the ferry, we had the rocket flying down the 217 south, we were passing bikes ,cars and mobile homes to get to the dock where the ferry was. When we got to the office where we pay and back to the dock we had seen that the vehicles we passed were pulling into the dock, they must have thought we were insane for driving so fast. I have to thank the manager at the Admiral Digby Inn for making the last minute arrangements for us, for it was one of the most fantastic experiences we have ever had or will have. There is nothing better than seeing these graceful animals in the flesh, their size was bigger than the boat we were in, a mother with her calf, a few adults feeding, it was an experience I would recommend to all who come this way via bike or car. We saw seals , dolphins and was educated on the life of these beasts. We came back to the hotel and went for supper at the Shoreline restaurant, which was right on the ocean and beside a dry dock shipyard, while we ate the dry dock put a boat back into the water and was dry-docking another trawler that needed repair, again another neat experience, the people on this part of the country have a lot of pride and sense of community. While were eating our dinner , we had live music by two older gentlemen on violin and guitar singing old songs of lore. After supper we came back to the hotel and met a couple from St. John NS who also had been biking in the area, a good friendship started, Kim and Ron Bent, we gabbed for an hour or so and found that we were much the same in tastes, they have five acres and a log house , the more we talked the more we found we had in common. They did not plan the trip either, just winging it , no pressure if you don't have to be in a certain place at a certain time. Well that's it for day six, in the morning we are going to visit Darlene and get to Sidney NS to catch a ferry to the rock.
