June 25: Peggy’s Cove to The Cabot Trail

Today was another long day of driving…Who am I kidding, everyday seems to be a long day of driving!  But that doesn’t mean we aren’t loving it!  We left Peggy’s Cove this morning and headed towards Halifax.  One of Carl’s friends from his program at Queens is from Halifax and just happened to be home for 2 weeks!  We sent him a text and were able to meet up with him in downtown Halifax.  We only spent about 1.5 hours there but in that time we were able to catch up with a friend, walk the boardwalk along the water and get a bit of history about Halifax from Will, Carl’s friend.  It was pleasant.  Then it was back in the car, destination the Cabot Trail!  We stopped and picked up some groceries and decided that since the weather was nice, we were going to have a fire and do up some BBQ chicken – Yum!

We entered the Cabot Trail around 6pm and were in search of a campsite.  The first one we were hoping to stay at was closed…So we kept driving and came to the second one, basically a parking lot with a bit of grass (and I guess I should mention the ocean front view).  It would have to do, the next campsite wasn’t for a long while.  We pulled in, looked around and realized there was no firewood!  So much for our delicious BBQ chicken, guess that will have to wait.  Ok next on the list, spaghetti!  Just need to find some water to boil the noodles in…Ummmm no water…Let’s see here, ok there is a sign “closest potable water, 10km south” – oh so you mean at the campsite we passed that is closed!?  Ok, well thank goodness we are smart little campers and had some water left over from our last sight!  Just enough for spaghetti and to fill up our water bottles…We’ll have to see how we make out without our morning coffee!  

For now, it’s time to take in the ocean view and watch the sunset!  Good night!