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

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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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