Last week-end was Labour Day holiday here in the Americas and is the last big holiday before Thanksgiving Day. It marks the end of summer and then students return to school.
We decided to take a trip to Joggins, a Unesco site on the Bay of Fundy, near the New Brunswick border.
This is a world recognised site with the earliest known fossil. This was a small reptile, discovered by Sir Charles Lyell in 1859, and called Hylonomus Lyelli
The new building is on the site of a former coal mine and has been designed to look similar in shape to a mine. The layers of slate mimic the layers of rock on the cliff.
Likewise the wood siding is placed horizontally.
Jeff just loved the building and would love a house like it – on a smaller scale.
The wind generator and solar panels produce all the electricity needed for the building and there is a ‘living’ roof, made of sod, with flowers growing on it. This helps insulate the building.
We had a tour of the museum and once the tide had receded enough we went down onto the beach .
What looks like a lump of concrete in the cliff below is a fossilised tree.
Most of the fossils are of plants and trees.
You can see the patterns that were on the outside of these massive plants.
After an exciting time, we walked around the village of Joggins and were surprised and disappointed to find the following. I will leave it up to you to comment.
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