Good day everyone! So today we are here at the Ovens Natural Park. It's on the
south shore of Nova Scotia, about an hour and a half from Halifax or so.
We're going to be doing a trail, so I've never been here, but Catherine and Adam have.
As you'll see, we're with our regular small group of people. We're going to be doing a
hike, and checking out the area. We should have a lot of really good views - it's all
along the ocean - the ovens, I believe, are ocean caves.
So those should be really kind of cool to see, and I hope for maybe they're pretty big.
I don't know so, I guess we'll find out here shortly!
Located toward the right where the waves are breaking.
So it's either that...
Or further over - like that spot.
But it's a reef.
Early mariners were known to carefully avoid it.
Four ships, I'm not going to read their names, ran aground there.
Cold?
Oh!
Dammit.
Put your butt down there Adam!
With your butts.
There you go.
Tuckers Tunnel: According to local lore, the claim holder named John Tucker
followed a rich vein of gold from the slate rock, continued until he reached
this sea cave, the result is a stairway down to the cliff with a unique view of the sea caves.
See the layers in it?
yeah
This is all ancient mud flow from Africa.
Back when the continents were all one.
Nova Scotia was actually attached to Africa.
And there used to be these mud flows.
And over the years they would build up, and build up.
Oh! There are pigeons in here!
And eventually with the continents moving, and it all came and ended up like this.
Vertical.
They can actually test this and find the same sediment in Africa.
Oh cool!
Penguin!
I don't think it's a penguin.
Penguin!
It's definitely not a penguin.
No, they're pigeons! What else would they be?
Their pigeons!
Yeah, it a pigeon.
There's more of them!
Oh, oh, oh! Look, there's more!
Oh there's 6!
This is pigeon day.
Oh, it's really big.
No, their pigeons!
So we were going to camp right here at the natural park until we put in a request
to get pricing. So Catherine did it the other day, and there's a group of six of
us, but they wanted like $88 the first night for the six of us and then $122
the next night. And we said "No way man! Not at all". I don't know what you guys
think, but for me, $122 is quite expensive to pay for six
people that tent at a non power, non-water site, no matter how pretty it is.
That's not what I'm about.
I'm about the "finding good deals".
And that's not a good deal.
Indian Cave.
It says: On the right the channel cuts through the rocks and forms an excellent view of Indian Cave.
Home of Nova Scotia's oldest legend about a Mi'kmaq Indian
who entered this cave and emerged in Annapolis on the other side of Nova Scotia.
In this subterranean passageway.
This natural....what's that word?
Pra....?
What's this word?
Promontory?
Promontory.
This natural...
Pro...
I don't know!
Named for Oscar Young, father of the park, dedicated in 1995, the concrete stairway on the other side
Oh! Ok fine, you're right.
was is poured by three workmen in the 1960's, mixing and hauling 2,000 buckets
of cement (all by hand). The stairway itself leads to Cannon cave where the
water masses slam deep into the cave, and even small waves create a massive sound effect.
When the sea is high, the slamming sound is loud like a cannon shot hence the name.
We're atop Young's Cave currently
The movie industry also discovered what a unique
place Oven's Park is. There have been reproductions filmed here. Bailey's mistake,
Rush of Fear, and Stone-Cold. Stars such as Tom Selleck, Linda Hamilton,
Stephen Baldwin, Rosanna Arquette and Paz de la Puerta. This type was used twice to film
cars falling over the edge, as script writers have taken advantage of our
cliffs and the ocean as setting for an action climax of their film.
Top of the rock lookoff.
Affording a precarious but unique view of two fully formed smaller sea caves on the right,
the second cave on your left is a baby cave being formed.
The shore opposite is the community of Lunenburg.
With all our sweaters and stuff you would never realize that it's actually
middle of July right now, but it is a cold day. But at least it's not a rainy
day. It was supposed to be - every time we check the weather it was supposed to be
either really rainy or fine - so one day it would be like really rainy, and we check
like six hours later, and I'd be like "Yes! The weather's turned around, it's going to be
fantastic" and then we check it again the next morning and I'm like "Nope, 15-20mm"
and then the next day it's like 5mm, and then we
checked yesterday and it's like 1mm. So I'm like "Okay, well we're
going go camping" and so far it's been good! It's been a little cold, but hey,
I'll take that over no rain!
Or wait...no...I'll take that with no rain!
I'd rather it be cold and like this than rainy.
Well everyone, we had a really nice little visit here at the park. It doesn't
take too long to go through , I think the kilometers... the trail is
only about a kilometer and a half, there and back, so it doesn't take very long.
You can see the whole park really within an hour if you wanted to, but anyway, so
we're done, hope you guys like the video! If you did, hit the thumbs up, let me know.
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Alright everyone, see you then!
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Filmed July 2018