We relaxed for awhile today
before visiting the Ottawa House Museum for their Wild Blueberry Harvest
Festival where we enjoyed blueberry cake with warm brown sugar sauce. A 91 year old gentleman who called himself
the Ambassador of Parrsboro sat and visited with us telling his many life
stories of how it used to be! Here’s
some trivia for you blueberry lovers:
---Nova
Scotia Provincial production is between 30-40 million pounds annually.
---The wild
blueberry is the number 1 fruit crop in acreage, export sales, and value.
---NS Wild Blueberries are exported to US,
Japan, Germany, UK and other countries.
---Harvesting of
wild blueberries begins in early August and continues until late September.
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| Ottawa House Museum |
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| Wild blueberry cake with brown sugar sauce |
After dessert we took a drive
down an unpaved road and took in some scenery not seen by the typical Nova
Scotia tourist. Our innkeepers were
helpful in pointing us in that direction.
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| Down the unpaved road we go |
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| Cape Split across the Basin |
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| Country church |
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| Partridge Island where we hiked to the look-off |
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| Parrsboro Lighthouse |
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