Chase the Cure: OH, NOVA SCOTIA... YOU'RE SO PRETTY!

We left Charlottetown Monday morning after a delicious breakfeast with the Scrimshaws and traveled toward the Wood Island Ferry. The entire ride reminded me of the western portion of Calgary with high rolling hills. It was really a lot of fun cruising up and down them. We arrived at the Ferry but were unable to get onto it for 4 hours.... waiting in line for a ferry isn't the most entertaining thing I have done this trip. It consisted of sleeping, reading, walking the muddy beach, and sleeping some more.

We arrived in Nova Scotia (above: Welcome to Nova Scotia) around 7 o'clock and traveled 30 km. to New Glasgow for the night.

The next day, we woke up to the beautiful view of a Wal-Mart and traveled 250 km. toward Sydney. Originally, this was supposed to take two days but we arrived in Port Hawkesbury, looked at some beautiful quilts and soon realized that it was still early in the afternoon and another 100 km was reasonable. So, we traveled onward, and let me tell you that Nova Scotia has some pretty good hills. The highest point we reached was Kelly's Mountain which was 20 km. outside of Sydney. It was a long, hot, slog up, with a glorious, long, downhill to follow. We arrived in Sydney realizing that we were a few days early and our ferry was not scheduled to leave until the morning of the seventh.

We looked at our maps and decided since we were in the area we would explore the gorgeous coast line by following the Cabot Trail and heading off for a hike!!!! It was stunning! We traveled along the rugged coast, swam in the Alantic Ocean and a fresh-water river!!!! After that day ended, we spent our night overlooking Pleasant Bay, which I might say was extremely pleasant.

(above: The chairs right by our RV at Pleasant Bay, below: Our RV's parking spot for the night)

Check out some of the pictures we took of the Cabot Trail. It is definitely worth going to see if you are ever up here. Oh yeah, we stumbled upon around 100 scarecrows in a yard and a moose.... Enjoy!