August 17 – 22: At this time of writing, the mainland of Nova Scotia is my favorite place we’ve visited from a pictorial perspective. While you will see in subsequent posts, Nova Scotia is pretty special, the mainland, southern end is quite charming with little harbors filled with colorful fishing and sail boats, more light houses and lovely people.
We tested the waters with a new challenge, taking Liv and Vigo wine tasting in the NE side of the mainland! We were able to park, have a quick taste and head on down the road to our Harvest Host camping experience with a lovely Mennonite family farming blueberries (and strawberries and raspberries). Harvest Host is a subscription program for about $50/year you have access to wineries and small farms around the US and Canada where you can “camp” on their property for one night at no cost with the idea that you will purchase something at their farm/winery. Their dog, Apollo even stood guard on our rig over night–we heard him barking at something that night and found him sitting at our doorstep when we opened the door the next morning.
We camped at Grave Island Provincial Park (state campground in Canada), which was probably one of the best locations site-wise that we’ve had. We were right between Halifax and Lunenburg (detailed in next blog post), off the Rails-to-Trails bike route and had views of the water! We popped over the Chester, which was another amazingly cute town on a little harbor for lunch the first day, had a fairly uninspired visit of Halifax the second day–probably due to the fog and mist, but mostly due to the traffic and busyness with a cruise ship and other tours in town. We did see the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic, which got one photo of Tom hanging out with the guys demonstrating Morse Code–little did they know that Tom is a ringer at Morse Code! Once they found out, he got to go in the special room with all the fancy exhibits!
The Traveling Lounsburys 