Blue Beach

The hubby picked me up from my short--but long enough--visit with my family Sunday afternoon. On the way home we stopped to tour some of Nova Scotia's treasures, Hall's Harbour and Blue Beach.

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Blue beach was once a tropical swamp and is now an important site for track fossils of our earliest 4-legged, five-toed ancestors who conquered the land earlier and more independently than expected.

''We're talking about a fundamental question in the history of life,'' said paleontologist Spencer Lucas of the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science in Albuquerque. ''We are talking about the origin of terrestriality. It's from this conquest (of land) that we are here.''

No wonder I feel so at home here in Nova Scotia, my ancestory goes way back!