Two Sore Backs

It’s true. Google knows you better than you know yourself. Back in March/April while we were planning the trip I started getting Meat Cove videos popping up in my feed. It’s a small fishing village, the most northerly settlement in Nova Scotia, at the end of a notorious gravel road. The private campsite there looked…

Following up from Pat’s post of his day fishing the Margaree, I have to agree The Margaree is a very beautiful river and valley. As we leave Inverness, heading north, we join the Cabot Trail at Margaree Forks. We have a three day window before another storm hits the Maritimes so our plan is to…

We had pre-booked an Airbnb near Inverness, thinking we would stay there while golfing. As it turned out, we played golf a bit earlier than planned and stayed at the resort, but we decided to keep the reservation anyway. There’s lots to explore near Inverness. With Val’s encouragement, I reached out to a few guides…

Promises, promises – this will be a short post. We are in slow down mode. Ceilidh Trail connects Canso Causeway to the Cabot Trail. Inverness and Cabot Links are on the Ceilidh Trail. This is a travel destination in its own right. Today we take a tour at the whiskey distillery – Glenora Distillery. And…

We have wrapped up a lovely weekend of golf and plan to stay in Inverness for a few more days. And sure enough the rains come again. No worries – we have an Airbnb booked and some downtime would be terrific. (Recent weather stats for the Maritimes have called this the wettest summer ever and…

When we left Nova Scotia for Newfoundland, back in the latter part of July, Val and I were comparing wrinkles on our fingers, almost like little kids climbing out of the tub. We’ve used the line “we had to go to Newfoundland to dry out!” many times. Almost predictably, we arrived in Sydney from Port…

The sun is shining for our last day on The Rock. We are blessed. Today we wrap up our Nfld trip with: a drive through the Codroy Valley, beach time at Cape Ray, a terrific fish dinner (someone else is cooking) and camping at J T Cheeseman provincial park. Hopefully there is time to drive…

Ok, this will be a quick one. After Blow me Down, we travelled south towards Port Au Basques and set up at Barrachois Provincial Park, just east of Stephenville. It’s a really nice park with campsites on a peninsula overlooking a very nice lake. We had one day to explore the area so decided to…

Our time in Nfld has been incredible. The West Coast has been as stunning as we expected. We’ve got a few precious days left before departing. What a whirlwind. Today we are driving from the top of the west coast of Nfld heading to Corner Brook. A clear sunny morning turns into a grey and…

After the amazing Gros Morne and a stop at Port aux Choix we continued north towards the L’Anse aux Meadows national historic site. First stop was Pistolet Bay Provincial Park. We didn’t spend tons of time there, but it was nice. Notice the height of the trees. This was the furthest north that we camped.…