Sep 26, 2011 - Events    No Comments

Oktoberfest

Each year on the last weekend in September Tatamagouche celebrates Oktoberfest.  Overnight the fronts of the shops on Main Street are transformed.  Another transformation is the rec centre in the village.  It is here that the Oktooberfest takes place.  In its normal state it is the local ice rink and sports hall, but over the course of a few days a group of volunteers transforms it with streamers, balloons and lights.  The seating around the edge of the rink area becomes a market place where you can buy hot dogs, local products and of course BEER.

They have 3 ‘sessions’ over 2 days for the celebration.  Nick and I helped out at the Friday night event.  It was a great atmosphere and everybody had a really good time.  We had a couple of visits from the local RCMP – just to make sure people were behaving themselves – and they had employed 5 security guards (the Saturday afternoon session can be quite a handful).

All told there were about 3000 people at the event from all over – we even had 4 visitors from Switzerland.  The Tatamagouche Oktoberfest is the second largest east of Ontario.

 

 

Sep 21, 2011 - Local Attractions    No Comments

Shubenacadie Wildlife Park

The wildlife park is another one of our favourite places to visit.  The park is full of animals that have been rescued, donated by other parks or given over as unwanted pets (yes – people really do keep cougars as pets).

http://wildlifepark.gov.ns.ca/index.html

The day we went it was really quiet (i think there was only us and another 4 people in the park) and the temperature was just right so the animals were out and not having a nap.  We had a lovely afternoon there wandering around and it is a bargain price to get in – just $4.25 in the summer and $2.75 in the winter months (not much to see in the winter though)

My favourite there is the racoons – they have the cutest faces.  Nick likes the bears – they are lovely but boy do they stink.  It is a cross between skunk and wet dog – not at all pleasant.  We have been informed that this is their smell – so we shouldn’t have any problems sniffing them out on the land.

 

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