Day 8 - The Extra at the End

Newfoundland to Fredericton, New Brunswick

558 Miles

Pulling off the ferry the next morning, we started to see Nova Scotia's beauty that we'd been told about time and time again. It was sunny, clear, bright and warm as we detoured to Cabot's Trail in northern Nova Scotia.

Cabot's Trail is a winding, mountainous road that skirts The Atlantic Ocean on one side and the Gulf of St. Lawrence on the other.

The views were magnificent as we drove through mountain wilderness,

past rocky coastlines, and even watched the lobstermen pulling in their lobster pots.

This day was July 1 - Canada Day, in Canada. It had the same look and feel as our Fourth of July, with lots of families out celebrating and towns hosting parades. We stopped for a late breakfast at a place called Brown Bean Café.

It was the perfect mountain spot to enjoy breakfast.

While we were getting ready to leave, a young girl came flying out of her car, ran towards us yelling "Wait! Wait! Is that a Harley bike?" We told her it was and she said she had to get a picture of her entire group (that was stuffed into the car) with the bike because they were on a scavenger hunt and one of the things they had to find was a Harley bike. If one of us could get in the picture they'd even get extra points.

We happily obliged, but they took off before we could get a picture with our camera. A couple more groups stopped us over the next hour or so with the same request, and this time I got a picture of the scavengers.

We made it all the way around the trail, then headed back to the highway, eager to rest our destination for the night.

We ended up in Fredericton, NB and sat down to a dinner of fresh surf and turf.

 

Full of good seafood and meat, we called it a night early. Happy to have seen what we'd hope to see of Canada's eastern beauty.