The well-heeled university town of WOLFVILLE , 110km northeast from Annapolis Royal, was originally called Mud Creek until the daughter of a local dignitary, Justice DeWolf, expressed her embarrassment at the hick-sounding name. He modestly had it renamed after himself, but the mud flats around the dinky little harbour – now a park located just off Main Street – remain the town's most distinctive feature. They are the creation of the Fundy tides , which rush up the Cornwallis River from the Minas Basin to dump the expanse of silt that's become home to hundreds of herons and waders, with … more »