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Meat Cove, Cape Breton Island
When planning, it occurred to me that at this juncture, we have been living in luxury on this trip. The majority of our campgrounds have had electricity and showers. It’s time to get off the beaten path. I noticed that the National Parks takes up this entire area except the very tip of the island…
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Highlands Hostel, Cape Breton Island
When we walked in we were welcomed by a group of people aged 12-45 all hanging out on recliners and couches right at the entry way. The World Cup was being projected on a huge wall spanning the entire room, a heavy metal type dude sat on the couch strumming his guitar. This was the…
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Fishing Cove, Cape Breton National Park
The view at Fishing Cove was unreal. The pictures I saw online don’t do it justice, the pictures I took don’t do it justice, and certainly my words won’t do it justice. I hope everyone gets to come here to see it. You’ll have to hike six kilometers in along a moderately difficult trail but…
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Cheticamp, Cape Breton Island
Preparing for our first backpacking trip of the summer and right now it looks like we are on the edge of the most beautiful forest ever. Cape Breton Highlands National Park encompasses a wild part of northern Nova Scotia. The area is reminiscent of the Scottish Highlands and is partially the reason the area was…
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Port Hood, Nova Scotia
I saw a debate online about the warmest beaches in Canada and a place called Port Hood was the clear winner with the statistics to back it up. Lucky for us, when I looked it up it’s right in our route in the perfect spot. Just a quick hour long ferry and a two hour…
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Happy Canada Day!
I looked it up, it said Canadians wear Red and dawn maple leafs and flags to celebrate Canada Day. Sure enough we are treated in the early morning by a group of kids decked out in red, waving their flags, and shouting Happy Canada Day. We do our best to fit in and I even…
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Cavendish, Prince Edward Island
Cavendish is billed as a charming beach town on the north coast of Prince Edward Island, the setting for the idyllic Anne of Green Gables. When planning this, I expected popular beach vibes and a boardwalk of shops. Traditional sandy beaches aren’t exactly how I relax but the kids love them and I love seeing…
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Hopewell Rocks, New Brunswick
The waters in the Bay of Fundy experience such dramatic tides partially due to resonance. The moon drives the tides because it has a large enough mass that it has a gravitational pull on the oceans of earth. If the moon is close then the water is pulled toward it, as the moon travels around…
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Fundy Bay National Park, New Brunswick
We have been to seven National Parks since we left seventeen days ago and I had never heard of a single one of them. The only one I’ve ever heard of, so I’m assuming the most famous one, is Fundy Bay National Park, and we arrive today. I’m expecting dramatic cliffs that run right up…
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Kouchibouguac National Park, New Brunswick
According to my preliminary research Kouchibouguac is a National Park formed around some beautiful coastline that centers on some epic sandy beaches. As such, I planned a two day stop here to slow down the fast paced and hopefully adventure filled trek that I had planned leading up to it. We generally get to our…
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