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Episode 27
8/2019
So while we are still on Prince Edward Island we stayed in Mahone Bay and we visited lunenburg on the South shore of Nova Scotia. It's a nice seaside town. We kayaked in Mahone Bay after we found a free put in at the local marina. I'm really pretty paddle. The next day we went over to crescent Beach and we drove on the beach with our jeep. We saw a gentleman stuck up to his bumper and sand in his car so we hooked up our tow strap and pulled him out. I offered to follow him off of the beach in case he got stuck again. But he declined he wanted to keep driving on the beach. I said okay but I'm only pulling you out this one time then. Afterwards we kayaked in lahave. We saw what they call an American eagle which was a bald eagle. The next day we drove over to Peggy's cove and we stayed at King Neptune campground. It was a nice view and beautiful sunsets. Over at Peggy's cove proper they have a really nice lighthouse on a rocky cove. There's a sign to stay off of the black rocks, they explain that every year somebody dies when they slip off of these wet rocks. A beautiful area very foggy. We then went over to the polycove hiking trail and we hiked on the high Head trail to a place called prospect. We then went over to Waverly and did some shopping
We then rode our bike on shubie trail enrolled over to shubie Beach. From there we went over to Halifax and visited the Titanic cemetery. Remember in the last episode when I mentioned Prince Edward Island has a high Irish population? Well when the Titanic went down a lot of the rescue efforts came from Nova Scotia. Afterwards we went over to the Halifax citadel where at 12:00 noon everyday they do a cannon firing. That evening we got a call from Patty and Andrew or friends in Nova Scotia and they said according to their calculations we would be leaving Nova Scotia soon. We explained that we were leaving the next day lol. It should then do us a favor and let's meet for breakfast on your way to New Brunswick.
We then headed up to Kouchibouguac N.P. (pronounced koo she boo quack) . We was staying in yet another boondockers welcome location. The gentleman's next door neighbor came over introduced herself and gave us some treats, bread, and jam wow! We then headed over to the national park and paddled in the north timberland streets which is the warmest salt water north of Virginia yep the water gets up to 84°. In late July the water temp was 76. We paddled 8 miles which was the longest paddle we've ever done. This area has high tides and we didn't time it very well. We got stuck a bunch of times in muck due to low tide. We were there with another young couple in a with a inflatable kayak. They were camped next to us. We saw two different kinds of jellyfish but only one of those sting. They say that if you get stung by one it's very mild and just rub wet sand on the area which kind of reminded me of pain management. Because I was thinking how would wet sand take away the sting? Well it kinda works like this: a mild pain like wet sand being rubbed on an area, will creat a pain signal loop to the spinal cord. The body recognizes that it's only a mild irritant so instead of sending the signal to the brain it just gets sent to the spinal cord and then goes back to the area and the muscles surrounding it. So if you ever get a mosquito bite, just tap the area and the signal will stop being sent to the brain. Try it some time.
The next day we started traveling north to Pointe Verte and along the way we stopped to see Pokeshaw Rock. And we spent the day in Bathurst. We were camped right on the beach. Via another boondocker welcome location. We were concerned because the temps were in the 90s and they asked that you do not run generators and did not have electric. So we called them and he said don't worry about sleeping with the temps you're right on the water you won't need air conditioning. And we sure didn't. That night for dinner they invited us into their gazebo we enjoyed nice food and wine with them. The next day we went to Pabanoe falls which is near the first nation New Brunswick. Beautiful cascading waterfalls. The next day we drove further up the shore and we camped again near the water at another boondockers welcome location. We went to Sugarloaf provincial Park. Now this is an upcoming town. They had a walking path right on the river. There was a clam shell for music. And we saw some great French fiddling and bluegrass. We saw a RV Park at camp Belton full hookups for $28 a night. Not bad but our stay was free. That night we found out that we could download movies on Netflix and watch them when we didn't have a signal. Then 2 months after we first arrived in New Brunswick we were driving out of it. We drove into the province of Quebec and back into Eastern Time zone. So out of the three provinces we've been in in Canada at this point we found alcohol to be the most expensive in Nova Scotia gas was the cheapest and Prince Edward Island and food was about the same in all three. The temps for the past four weeks have been near 90 and typically the only have one week of hot weather here each summer. We drove 3 and 1/2 hours to Temiscouta National Park. Our free entry pass didn't work here because we bought the annual pass in N.B. at our first national park visit in canada. Oh well. We had a hard time finding this national Park the GPS and Google maps was taking us down a dirt road with a 13% grade. So I stopped we unhooked and Trish took the Jeep to see if this road actually took us to the visitor center as there was no signs at all. I asked a few people for directions but they only spoke French Trish met a park ranger at the visitor center but they too only spoke French then a young couple riding their bikes past the rig so I asked them if they spoke English and they did as they were teachers in Quebec. They explained it yes we can take this road without an issue with the rig they followed us to the visitor center help translate for us to get checked in. We asked them where they were camped and after dinner we grabbed a bottle of wine went to their site and sat there for a couple hours chatting.
In this province outside of the big cities as in this campground also many of the signs and brochures were in French only. We did find one brochure about entertainment and it was translated to English but not very well. They said the free music was $10. Lol
We then drove to eau Claire and visited Domain Acer. Acer translates to Maple and that's what they make their wine from and they can't call it wine because it's not from grapes. Lol. We stopped at a small place for tea and cookie which were delicious and we met a guy there with pants similar to my hippie pants which I got in provincetown. He was explaining that or Claire and two other villages nearby, the government would pay you $1,000 to burn down your house and move into the city this was back in the 1970s but a bunch of the locals said no! They became more reliant on the land for their earnings. Very interesting history.
The next day we left this area and headed over towards Corvette City we arrived in Levis. Which was a 5-minute ride over bridge to Quebec city. But our real goal was to see old Quebec City. Ever since we arrived in Canada people would ask where we're heading and we would say old Quebec and everybody said you will love it and they were absolutely right. We were staying at a campground for $45 a night with full hookups. This was expensive for us but after the US conversion it was about $35 a night and not too bad. Now an old Quebec City the food was phenomenal people were friendly lots of History and the architecture. We had Brie cheese which was so late and creamy wow. The gelato was lighter than any place else we've had it it was almost like a sorbet. For dinner we had escargot and Parmesan. Again wow. Walking around we saw street performers and of course the famed wall of the walled city. We spend one full day and the evening prior in Quebec City and we found that to be the perfect amount of time for us. We went bike riding along the St Lawrence River we found a nice little park there with splash pools for kids. We visited the park Des chutes de la chaudiere near the bridge on the st Lawrence.

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