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Nova Scotia Again

August 2022
Off to Nova Scotia for a second time! We are primarily here to attend Darcy and Scott's wedding but are touring some places we missed last. Read more
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    Day 1

    Elmsdale

    August 16, 2022 in Canada ⋅ ⛅ 15 °C

    After an uneventful but long flight day we checked in at our bed and breakfast in Elmsdale, Nova Scotia. We lost three hours due to time change but that didn't matter. We were so tired from the events from the last few days, that we found a place to eat and went to bed. The meal for us was a late lunch but ended up being a late supper in Nova Scotia.
    We stayed at the Briarwood Bed and Breakfast in Elmsdale. It was lovely and we had a great breakfast. The hosts were very pleasant. Besides staying there that's all we saw/did. I would highly recommend this place if you need to stay somewhere close to the Halifax airport.    Read more

  • TravelerNova Scotia Again
    Day 1

    St Peter's/Bras d'Or Lakes

    August 16, 2022 in Canada ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C

    Today we did Gerard's favourite thing - driving secondary roads so we can see something new. Our drive was from Elmsdale to St Peter's and should have taken almost 3 hours. It took us 6 🙂
    St Peter's is a nice little town with lots of touristy things to do. Since we arrived in the evening we found a place to eat and then took a drive through Battery Provincial Park. Only picture I got was of the fantastic sunset. It's from the park looking over St Peter's Bay to the townsite.Read more

  • TravelerNova Scotia Again
    Day 2

    St Peter's to Sydney

    August 17, 2022 in Canada ⋅ 🌧 19 °C

    What a rainy day!! We had planned to go for a walk a on few trails in around St. Peter's and possibly Battery Provincial Park, but it was pouring rain. All day!!
    So instead we went to the St Peter's Canal Historic Site and Learned about how the locks worked. We also learned that brackish means a combination of salt water and fresh water and Bras d'Or Lakes are brackish. And we learned that Bras d"or Lakes is an inland sea not a lake.
    We then went to the Nicolas Denys Museum. He founded three settlements, one of them being St. Peter's. The museum does not have any of his stuff but rather a lot of artifacts from his time. It was interesting. The most interesting artifact that is in the museum is a book bound in human skin. Yuch!!! They had it DNA tested and it originates from the Spain/Portugal area. Still Yuch!!!
    We then went to the Wallace MacAskill Museum. He was photographer and took pictures when everything was in black and white. His claim to fame is that he took the photo of the Blue Nose that was used for minting the dime.
    After doing all that we could in St. Peter's we drove to Sydney.
    On our drive we saw a sign for the UNESCO Cape Breton Biosphere. We drove for a while before figuring out that the biosphere was not a specific place but the area around Bras d'Or Lakes. However in the unceded Mi'kmaq territory of Potolak. That's where we found Chapel Island. It seems that this island is a sacred place for the indigenous people in Nova Scotia.

    After we settled into our "old school" motel, we went to the Marconi Historic Site and Museum. We learned that Marconi was inventor who is known for inventing the radio wave-based wireless telegraph system. Morse code was to communicate messages with this system.
    So it was a day little to no pictures but lots of education. We are hoping that we can get outside tomorrow, see some sites and take some pictures.    Read more

  • TravelerNova Scotia Again
    Day 3

    Fortress of Louisburg

    August 18, 2022 in Canada ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C

    Today we went to see one of the planned places on this trip, the Fortress of Louisburg. Learned the difference between a fort and a fortress. A fort is strictly military, whereas a fortress is more of a town protected by a wall and the military. It was built by the French. And around 1740ish the British took it over for five years. Then the French got it back for ten years. Then the British got it back and decided to destroy it. It took 10 more years to pillage the place and destroy the fortress. One fifth of the fortress had been reconstructed. Pretty interesting place see.Read more

  • TravelerNova Scotia Again
    Day 3

    Sydney Fiddle

    August 18, 2022 in Canada ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C

    After viewing the fortress we drove back to Sydney and really needed gas. In our quest to find a Mobil station (Gerard wanted the points) we found the Sydney Fiddle. It sits right on the Port of Sydney where the cruise ships dock and there was one there. Since I have no desire to ever travel on a cruise ship I don't think I have ever seen one or taken notice how big they are. This one had twelve floors 🙄. I really have no desire to travel on a cruise ship now after seeing it. That is to overwhelmingly big.
    We took a look at the shops around the Fiddle then took a walk through Old Sydney, had some supper and then took an early evening stroll along the port. It was a nice way to end the day.    Read more

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    Day 4

    Off to the Wedding!

    August 19, 2022 in Canada ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C

    Today's journey takes us from Sydney to Bay St Lawrence. It's a two hour drive that took us about 7 hours. We took the Cabot Trail, which takes you along the coast of Cape Breton and passes through Cape Breton Highlands National Park. So we got to do one of my favourite things-hike a trail in a national park. We can now check off another national park that we can say we spent some time exploring. The trail took us out to the point. The tide was coming in; it is always interesting to me to watch the Atlantic Ocean slam itself against the rocks. And there were seals!! They were playing with the waves so it was hard to get a picture.Read more

  • TravelerNova Scotia Again
    Day 4

    Black Brook Beach

    August 19, 2022 in Canada ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C

    This is in Cape Breton Highlands National Park. Not sure where the brook is but I am sure it has something to do with the waterfall. It was just so beautiful I had to give it it's own footprint 🙂

  • TravelerNova Scotia Again
    Day 6

    White Point

    August 21, 2022 in Canada ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C

    Today we drove from Bay St Lawrence to Baddeck. We made a few stops for shopping but the most interesting site was White Point. It is not part of the National Park but was suggested by the park guide as a great place for a short hike. She was not wrong. It's very rocky and cliffy but it's beauty makes the wonky walk worth it. Just walking on the many trails and seeing the point from different angles is amazing. It's all the same point but the views are spectacular no matter what angle you look from.
    We also stopped at the Groovy Goat. It's a soap shop and petting farm. I talked to the father of the owners for quite a while. He said that they get most of their animals from Saskatchewan. They got two donkeys for the price of one from SK. A donkey had arrived last November and was gaining weight. They thought she was just eating alot of food. One morning in the spring they got up and there was a baby donkey in the barn!! I didn't get a picture of the baby because he was moving around to much.    Read more

  • TravelerNova Scotia Again
    Day 7

    Baddeck

    August 22, 2022 in Canada ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C

    This morning we got up and went straight to the Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site. This was another must see for our trip. Turns out AGB didn't just invent the phone. He started his career teaching deaf people how to talk. He then invented the phone, which set him up financially for life. His residence was a self-sufficient sustainable farm creating employment for the area. His big accomplishment after the phone was being involved in the development of the plane used for the first flight in Canada.
    When we were done we had lunch on the pier. This is kind of an area for those who can afford it to come and sail their very fancy sailboats. Because of all the sailboats the harbour is quiet and peaceful.
    After lunch we went to Uisge Ban Falls. Not even trying to pronounce this. Another thing I've this trip is that the Gaelic language only has 18 letters. So letter combinations mean different sounds. That's why Gaelic words are look long but are never that long to say. I digress. So we went for a little hike and the falls were very beautiful. Glad we did this walk too. Now off to Pictou    Read more

  • TravelerNova Scotia Again
    Day 8

    Tatamagouche

    August 23, 2022 in Canada ⋅ 🌧 19 °C

    Today we traveled from Pictou to Charlottetown PEI. There was a ferry fire a few weeks ago that put one of the ferries out of commission. We heard from a couple of B&B hosts that the wait times for a ferry were really long. Last night's host convinced is that driving was the far better option. It wasn't hard to convince Gerard to drive for an extra hour or two.
    We left Pictou at about 9, we didn't stay to look around and were on the road a little earlier than usual.
    Drive by a couple of places/shops that we thought might be interesting but nothing was open until noon. The Caldera whiskey factory was on the road we took we decided to go check it out but it was closed until 11. We wanted to stop there because Gerard and Bryce each got a bottle of this whiskey the last time we were here. The bottle says batch number 1. It would have been cool to check out but the distillery was in the middle of nowhere and there was nothing to fill our time so onward we went.
    Next stop was Tatamagouche, another recommendation by last night's host. The recommendation was to have lunch there but we were still having the problem of leaving too early and nothing being open. However, we found a museum that was pretty cool. It seemed to me that they took all the mutations in this town and combined them. It was in an old creamery so there was lots old creamm/butter making equipment. My favourite thing was the Boiler Bob who lives behind the shifted boiler. It was hallogram/video thing and was pretty cool.
    As we were leaving we spent some time talking with the young lady at the reception desk who said she was born in Saskatchewan. She wrote a book and I had to buy it. After our visit to the museum the restaurant was open, we had lunch and we were off to Charlottetown.    Read more

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