we made it to peggy's cove nova scotia canada we sure did
i have a feeling we're gonna love it i already like what i've seen so far we've literally
just stepped on the trail what happened today i don't even know what to say i mean
okay no i'm pretty wet that's that's a fail yeah looks like i did something else right
good morning good morning guys good morning guys welcome to the blue rocks yeah another gorgeous
day here in nova scotia the sunshine province yes no where's the rain and fog we've been expecting
but today we are continuing our canada road trip along the south shore of nova scotia we're leaving
lunenburg behind kind of sad because we really enjoyed our stay there it was such a beautiful
little town and there are still so many more communities and fishing villages that we just
didn't have enough time for oh yeah um so this morning we are stopping at the blue rocks and then
we are going to head over to peggy's cove canada but making lots of little stops along the way
right so that's the focal point of our day basically heading there but there's also
some beaches that we're gonna visit might do a little bit of hiking along the way we've plotted
a couple cute restaurants we could possibly pop into and yeah it's just gonna be another great
day we're heading north but um yeah super pumped about today and with the weather being like this
it's just so inviting and with the breeze it's also i gotta say like it's it's not the
kind of weather that makes you sweat right now it's just very comfortable i love it
the community of blue rocks gets its name from the blue slate rocks that lead down to the water
for anyone with a bit more time this is a really nice little village to spend a few days
plus it's a popular destination for kayaking tours with the option of glamping
i wish we'd had a few extra days to spend here but our trip was
winding down and we needed to start driving so this was just a quick visit
well well familiar name here i'm back in gold river my hometown just kidding actually there is
a gold river in nova scotia we had no idea we made two detours to come here so i could get a shot by
the gold river sign how does it compare to gold river bc it's completely different obviously west
coast versus east coast where i grew up it was more of a logging in a mill town but um yeah it's
fascinating to be in gold river so our next random stop of the day is graves island provincial park
because it was on the way because we like islands and because we just feel like stopping over
on this kind of sort of long drive we have today yeah and so far a very tranquil beautiful place
um well set up for families lots of picnic benches there's outhouses there's access to a
little beach area you can walk along the the dirt road here i mean just a nice little place to come
yeah a quick stopover yeah yeah really nice i'm just wishing we brought a picnic like
this would be such a nice spot for lunch it's a little bit early for lunch i'm not sure why
we're thinking about food already but it's kind of us that's us that's us to a tea isn't it yeah
so we're just gonna explore this island a little bit do some walking and see you soon
hey are we gonna be friends ducks hey hi hi cocky we've come across three cute little ducks they
swam right up to us i think they're probably used to getting little snacks from humans
they're wondering what's for lunch yeah because they're not very afraid of us but sorry duckies
we're not going to be feeding you but you've got seaweed and little sea creatures happening here
well hello guys we have stopped in the town of hubbard's for lunch today we came to the
trellis cafe where i've ordered a new to me dish this is an african peanut soup and it is so good
it's so creamy and nutty i really like it it has like chunks of tomato sweet potato in there
sweet potato i gotta try that i love it i love the nuttiness it was part of a soup
and sandwich combo yeah i got an avocado and a green cheese sandwich a toasted sandwich
i look really good too it looks real like homemade bread lots of ingredients
pairing it with an iced tea
just what we need and i love this outdoor terrace patio they have
it's it's really nice yeah covered by vines you have a bit of shade yeah it's the just the
perfect place i'm so excited to be trying this burger this is called the bc burger i thought
maybe it's named after my home province of british columbia but then we started thinking about what
were in the ingredients and it's the bacon and cheddar so it also comes with caramelized onions
and aioli sauce so very excited for this and it's made with grass-fed nova scotian beef
should be good oh very cheap
another thing a beauty very very nice patty obviously the bacon compliments it
lots of cheese lots of sauce lots of cheese on his mustache
guys it's just it's too good just enjoying a burger here and keep it off my face
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what happened today i don't even know what to say admittedly better well this this place was
trickier because the the waves were stronger and i mean okay no i am pretty wet that's that's a fail
yeah looks like i did something else right well you know this is a great little spot so close to
hubbard's right um just love this little beach here it just stretches out for a small distance
but it's the waters are inviting it is a little cold but there are more people swimming here
than i've seen in other beaches i feel like the theme for this trip on the south shore has been
sam getting salty i'm getting salty getting some salt water on that leg wound
that is healing nicely at this oh man i can't wait until we're not talking about the wound
the leg wound i don't want it to be a permanent uh you know feature
but it's been going up for a while but yeah i mean i love all the beaches in this area you could just
do a whole trip based on beaches beach hopping yeah you definitely could we totally could we
had a few to choose from we decided on this one queensland yeah yeah and now we're gonna pick up
the pace a little bit and start getting closer to peggy's cove nova scotia let's get going
peggy's point lighthouse also known as peggy's cove lighthouse is pretty much
an iconic symbol in nova scotia this classic red and white lighthouse sits on a granite outcrop
and it very well may be the most photographed lighthouse in all of canada normally during
the summer months you can expect to find hundreds of visitors walking across these rocks
but we visited in summer 2020 which explains why we had the whole place almost all to ourselves
but now that we've shown you the lighthouse it's time to enjoy a stroll through peggy's cove
hello hello we made it to peggy's cove canada we sure did pretty cool
we've been exploring for quite a while the reason we're doing the update in the car as opposed to
out there is that it's very windy and we don't want to give you guys a muffled audio recording
yeah no but honestly it's really impressive i would say the thing i like most about this stop
is the rocks like getting to walk on the rocks and like scramble up and see the lighthouse
from different vantage points exactly the rugged coastline is just unbelievably impressive it's
kind of like i mean it's not the same and it is the giants causeway in northern ireland but it
sort of reminds me of that experience like it's just this massive formation of rocks that you
can walk on i mean it stretches way further than what we were even able to explore so to me that's
the most impressive now the one thing you do have to be aware of is that there are black rocks and
that people slip on them and so be very careful where you go but there's a lot of areas you can
explore safely yes yeah and i mean the lighthouse is definitely iconic but it's your view of it
from all over the rocks that you that you climb and that you walk on that makes it special in my
opinion yeah and now we're just gonna drive into the town itself walk around a little bit there's
a lot of little shops restaurants cafes you can also rent cottages and stay right in peggy's cove
but yeah it's very very small so we'll walk around on foot and show you guys what that's about
so
peggy's cove was founded in 1811 when the province of nova scotia issued a land grant of more than
800 acres to six families of german descent the settlers relied primarily on fishing though they
also farmed and used the surrounding lands to raise cattle by the early 1800s the population
had peaked at about 300 and the community had its own schoolhouse church general store and
lobster cannery while peggy's cove still remains a fishing community today its economy does rely
heavily on tourism there are plenty of cottages restaurants and souvenir shops to choose from
but i think if you really want to experience the charm of the place it's worth spending the night
so you can have it all to yourself once the tour buses and day trippers like us have gone
so now we are going to do a little hike to pollie's cove maybe a five-minute drive past
peggy's cove apparently there's a really nice lookout over there and yeah fewer people oh yes
definitely and let's why don't we describe how we found out about this place
this place was recommended to us by one of our servers at a restaurant right yeah exactly and how
yeah yeah so she told us about this hike that you just park on the side of the road there's
a little bit of space there sorry i'm just gonna jump in here basically all of our best
recommendations for travel and restaurants on this trip have come from locals or i mean
local nova scotians so yeah yeah um i have a feeling we're gonna love it i already like
what i've seen so far we've literally just stopped on the trail but let's go check it out
pollie's cove is a 3.9 kilometer loop trail through coastal barrens that offers numerous
look-offs and cliff views we only completed a portion of the trail since we had quite a
distance to cover before sundown but we really enjoyed what we saw
after that little hike we drove down to rhubarb restaurant in indian harbor for another tasty meal
an early dinner guys we've worked up an appetite hiking in police cove
so we came to rhubarb and i've gone for the fish tacos which are so plump so colorful
like we've got fish obviously red onions red pepper orange yellow peppers cilantro lime juice
oh it's just dripping with the lime you put on that those look good they look plump plump from
over here i'm very very nice wow i was really hungry yeah yeah surprisingly hungry all the
walking we do it we eat a lot but we've been moving we burn it all we've been burning it
off each day and sam got a lovely pizza i think i'm more impressed by the knife i'm wielding
than the pizza in front of me that says a lot because this is the house specialty
it comes with a it's an eclectic mix bacon pineapple onions and peppers lots of cheese too
just the right size too for one person this is the first time i see samuel using cutlery for people
you know what they brought such a nice knife i normally pick up the slices with my hand but
i feel an obligation to use the knife they brought me
look nice nice thin crust lots of cheese very juicy with all the ingredients in there and i've
tried the propeller ginger soda so now i'm trying the root soda
that one's really good too ginger one has more bite though so i prefer the ginger
then it was time to hit the road again we had a two plus hour drive to reach
our accommodations in the outskirts of tatamagoosh
we found a really cool place on airbnb so here's a little sneak peek at that
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vine wine we got the wine from argentina vine you know so this is from one of our favorite brands
uh well-known trepice never had this one before though the extravaganza it's a red blend um looks
like a product that we've never seen in argentina or canada so excited to try it 2018. alright guys
so we have made it to home sweet home for the night tata magoosh yes outside i think we're like
15 minutes away yeah we're actually in the woods yeah sorry for the lack of update guys we just
had a lot of driving we're both tired of driving and i wasn't feeling well but you know what we are
going to have a bit of wine yeah cheer ourselves up and we're going to watch some tv and we're in
this beautiful log cabin right beautiful cabin here on the woods yeah i hope you guys enjoyed
this nova scotia road trip we did a lot today and um yeah we were going to still show you a lot more
in our next episode so yeah so this is going to be our final destination nova scotia coming
up tata magoosh we have two days here so we'll show you what that is like we found a very unique
stay in the woods so expect a tour in the next episode but for now we're going to sign off with
zivine and chocolate chocolates we've got what blueberry chocolates local blueberry chocolate so
that's a good wine yes it is yeah ho ho another sip extravaganza
argentina we're going to have an ice cream bag
yeah it's really smooth my goodness i love it a little bit sweet too wow anyways see you tomorrow
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