Welcome to Nova Scotia. The first thing we noticed in Nova Scotia was trees were a lot darker in colour than on Prince Edward Island. There was also a constant smoke haze in the air. We drove the Cabot Trail in the Cape Breton Highlands anti-clockwise to avoid the tourist traffic (Thanks for the advice Mark), our first night was in a little town called Whycocomagh (pronounced Why gog ma). Then on to Pleasant Bay for a morning of whale watching. We saw a pod of pilot whales, 2 babies and a few seals. The countryside is amazing, so pretty and so green.
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| Aggregate mining |
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| Can you spot the red house in the trees? |
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| Mary Ann Falls |
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| Beulach Ban Falls |
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| Garage sale on the side of the road |
We then traveled to the oldest town in Canada called Annapolis Royal. Originally called Port Royal in 1710 the town was renamed in honour of Queen Anne. We did a graveyard tour, visited the Historical Garden, explored Fort Anne, caught a ferry to a couple of islands, walked 3kms to see the balancing rock. Beautiful little town and a place that we would revisit.
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| The home on the top left is the oldest home in Annapolis Royal |
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| We did the graveyard tour at night then went back next day to take photos. |
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| Heritage Tapestry which covers 400 years of history. 20,000 hours of stitching, and over 3 million stitches |
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| Above Queen Anne's medallion is a small patch of gold stitching that was done by Queen Elizabeth |
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| Fort Anne model and the gun powder rooms |
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| The ferry and a selfie on the ferry in a truck mirror. |
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| The Balancing Rock |
Our next stop was Moncton, New Brunswick to see the giant lobster, Hopewell rocks were the tide seems to be always out, saw the tidal wave whilst driving over the bridge, drove down Magnetic Hill then continued on our journey.
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| The biggest lobster in the world! |
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| Shediac Harbour |
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| Hopewell Rocks. We are standing on the ocean floor. |
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| The tidal wave and the water filling the river |
A video of the tide coming in
A short drive to St Andrews on the coast for another whale watching cruise, this one was very disappointing as we only saw one whale but we had a nice boat ride. The next day was our huge 800km travel day, then off to an animal sanctuary. What an awesome day that was.
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| The view from our motel room. |
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| Our yellow motel from the boat |
After 26 days and 8430 kilometres we are back in Markham for 8 days rest and to do the washing/ironing before we head off on another mega 4 weeks sightseeing.
