Digby NS Day 13 Sept 29

It rained all night and it did not let up all day - and today was Ferry day. Instead of having to travel several hundred miles up the New Brunswick coast and then down into southern into Nova Scotia, the ferry ride is 49 miles across from St John to Digby and takes 3 hours. ( check the blog map) With 20 mph winds I knew that this was going to be fun. We lined up and waited for the Ferry to arrive. Could ALL these vehicles get into this tub. Try 1X18 wheeler, one enormous tour bus, several RV's and dozens of cars . This made Noah look like little league. It seemed he would lose the content as well as the rain contest. It poured. We finally got going. Would you believe that Starbucks made it onto the Acadia Princess. Is their no end to this capitalist - we immediately bought 3 talls , dark roast. ( What is it with this "Tall/Grande/Venti" thing. So bourgeois)They should have put out the "rough roads" sign This time they meant it. Be still my beating heart. What was that noise. Should I tell the captain that we were scraping the bottom. If not we had hit a considerably large object, like a whale. How come they were not handing out life vests. Oh well, the locals seem to be relaxed - still watching the golf. Maybe we were not going to sink after all.We completed the epic voyage and made our way to Jaggers Point, our overnight campsite. I kept my life vest - may need it on the way back.We got an explanation on our beer purchases from Hugh Brown, a genuine Canadian."You can buy beer and liquor at the LCBO and you can only buy beer at the Beer Store, but you can't return your empty wine bottles to the LCBO where you bought them! For that you have to go to the Beer Store" !! Thanks for that Hugh , I think