Blogs from Nova Scotia, Canada, North America

Halifax is rainy so I am staying on board. Reading, enjoying a luscious mushroom and brown rice chowder, solid A. Have to find another book. Tonight dinner at the Pinnacle. Delicious dinner of steak tartare and rack of lamb with mashed potatoes, a glass of Cabernet and Key Lime Pie. It must be the sea air as I was in bed by eight, slept through the night and awakened by breakfast at 7:30. Finished my book, will look for another. The TV lineup us awful. News in Fox, CNBC and BBC. Two sports channels, food, HGTV, and Prime one Prime one. I find the Bow and Aft cams more interesting. Today is a sea day and the skies are overcast, the sea calm but I do see a few whitecaps. I feel little motion until I ... read more

Day 8 - Today was an amazing day! We left the campground in the "Bug" around 10:00 in a very thick fog. I was feeling very disappointed that our drive to and around the Cabot Trail was going to be a bust. After driving for about an hour towards the coast, the sun started to break through, the fog burned off, and it turned into a beautiful day. Before long the amazing scenery was before us. The coast line is lined with mountains and cliffs with different shades of blue, green and bro,wn. Once in the National Park, we entered the "Highlands" and the scenery got even better. The Cabot trail is named after an Italian explorer named John Cabot. He sailed under the British flag, sponsored by King Henry VII, to find lands west of ... read more

As I am sure you probably already figured out we did not have internet yesterday so here is the blog that should have gone out last night. Day 5 We left Port Royal with a bit of overcast, but not cold. As we passed St. Mary's Bay it was socked in with fog which soon lifted, and it turned into a glorious day. Our drive today to Yarmouth was about 2 hours, and we arrived at our camp site, Campers Haven, around noon. After setting up, which has become so very smooth, and a quick lunch we hit the road with the "bug". Our mission today was to check out the area that Ray's grandparents, Frank German and Jane Amirault were from, Pubnico and East Pubnico. Also many generations of his family were from this area, ... read more

After a wonderful nights sleep by the both of us, we awoke to a beautiful day. After breakfast we went to the Port Royal Habitation, a recreation of a 17th century french compound. It was very interesting to see how they lived and functioned in those early days. Because of the many hardships they had to endure, they established the Order of Good Cheer, to keep their table joyous and well provided. Basically, the men took turns hosting the banquet and arraigning entertainment. There was no mention of what the women were doing that night. Life then was pretty hard. From there, we headed of to Digby, where we planned to have lunch. Digby is a seaport catering mostly to fishing vessels, and claiming to be the scallop capital of the world. We found a lovely ... read more

Day 2 was another long ride, but here we are in Nova Scotia. We did not get a super early start, about 10:00 after having the propane tank filled, but the roads were not busy so the drive was pleasant. Crossing the border was uneventful. The customs agent was a very friendly young women. She asked all of the customary questions, including how much alcohol we had on board. Luckily, we knew ahead of time we could only have two bottles each, so we were good. No questions on Meat , poultry, veggies etc, like some of our other border crossings. Ray had pulled in his big side mirror before pulling up to the window and she asked if he always drove with it in this position. He said yes, I like to look at myself ... read more