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...