Hurricane Bill - Right Afterwards

Hurricane Bill occupied a lot of our time during the past week. We tracked it's movement on several weather sites. We read forecasts. We read what the concerns were in the area where we live (ready for harvest orchards could be devestated by the high winds we could get. We read about the Saxby Gale - a hurricane in 1869 that came right up the Minas Basin during the highest tides of autumn and breached the dykes, and destroyed the new railway in Wolfville and Horton. I told a Mi'kmaq story about a child who gently tricks and tames a storm maker. Then on the day of the storm we watched the skies at home. We got rain and winds that raced up and then down our street. The only damage though was to a few flowering bushes that lost a lot of flowers.

The Annapolis Valley was spared and after the rain passed and we had checked wind conditions we went for a drive to see what the weather was like on our protected western shore. High tide at the Lookoff - cloudy skies and a cool wind.

High Tide at Scotts Bay. Rougher surf than usual and a cold wind.

Wild Thing was a little scared of the surf, he'd just woken up from a nap.

Nature girl took this picture. This is usually a tame little stream in August. It looked more like it does in March or April.