Nova Scotia 2024-1: Yarmouth to Peggy's Cove

    We'd anticipated spending perhaps 5 to 7 days in Nova Scotia—we ended up spending 2-1/2 weeks! We loved it!

4.5 hour CAT ferry in fog & rain, Bar Harbor, Maine, to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. 

1st views of Nova Scotia’s ragged coast in the fog 

17 Days in Nova Scotia. Purple: Yarmouth-Peggy's Cove. Green: Halifax & Grand Desert. Eastern Shore to Cape Breton Island. Baddeck to Meat Cove. Red: Cabot Trail & Bras d'Or Lake. Louisbourg, Louisbrick & the Big Fiddle. Blue: Last day in Nova Scotia.

Apple core style lighthouse, Cape Fourchu, Yarmouth 

Camped 2 nights at nearby Ellenwood Provincial Park, 1st of many. 

Refreshed after a swim in the lake. 

Huge rhododendrons were everywhere!

Many, many churches, large & small, many denominations. 

Many small white churches. 

2 free ferries to 2 islands at tip of Digby Neck. We're becoming those people with cute things lining the dash—Our crew were fascinated...

Colorful hones.

Colorful doors. 

Lobster boats, Westport Harbor, Brier Is. Lobster fishing is major source of income throughout province. 

Lobster traps.

Boondocking on beach, Brier Is. 

Sunset from campsite. 

Bilingual English-French signs. 

Lighthouse on Brier Island. 

Free ferry. 

Sea shanties. 

    From Brier Island we went to Annapolis Royal.

Fort Anne’s amazing constructed mounds against invasion, Annapolis Royal. 

Fort Anne 

Another lakeside campground…

Another swim. 

Apple orchard, Annapolis Valley. 

Acadian dykes in Wolfville. 

Peggy’s Cove Lighthouse. 

What would Nova Scotia—New Scotlan—be without a bagpiper?

    More to come !