Travelling to the Canadian East Coast
We have our timeline down, but no camping spots or activities.... Leaving Ontario Aug 2nd to Quebec City. Spend the next full day there then hit the road morning of Aug 4th. Arrive PEI later tha...
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Take the Autoroute 30 bypass around the south shore of Montreal, there is a small toll but it's worth it. Puts you on the AR20 side of the river so you would have to cross the bridge to get to Quebec City itself, and last time I was through there was still a lot of construction going on around QC. Bridge on to PEI and Ferry off is the more expensive way to do it, but it works for your route so that's fine. The ferry lands near Pictou, which is kind of neat, and you can do a tour of the Grohmann Knife factory and get factory seconds. Absolute top quality kitchen and sporting knives. Fortress Louisbourg (pronounced "Lewisberg" so you know who won that particular war) is a wonderful recreation of the original French port and capital on Cape Breton Island, and there is an RV park right in the heart of the town, has 20 or 30 sites so reserve if you are interested. Nice town, nice restaurants, etc. When you get off the island you'll be going through Truro, and if you time it right there is a nice viewing spot they just tarted up to see the tidal bore (Bay of Fundy). If you decide to do the Annapolis Valley you can cut across country from Truro west, and pick your way across on smaller roads, I've done that several times and some of the views are tremendous, and there is a fossil museum on the coast of the bay that is supposed to be top notch if you like fossils. Most the Annapolis valley is best seen along highway 1 or 201 rather than 101, (in Nova Scotia, the highway numbers tell you the type of road. A single digit like Highway 1 is a main two lane road, a triple digit with 1 is a divided two or four lane limited access high speed highway, a triple digit with 2 like 201 is a narrow, probably twisty and slowish two lane road and a triple digit with 3 like 311 is a wide, somewhat straight and smooth two lane road, a step up from a 201 but not as good as a 1). If you go north in Annapolis from the main highway up towards the coast of the bay of Fundy the terrain gets quite hilly and the roads steep and twisty, but you can see some amazing sights if you visit one or two of the tiny fishing villages, where they get 10 foot tides every day.
Whew. To carry on - south of Halifax is very wet, it being the Atlantic Ocean, but west of Halifax take highway 3 along the coast. The south shore is magnificent, the fishing villages homey as heck, but due to the terrain all you can see from Highway 103 is trees. Highway 3 is the ticket. Peggys Cove has massive parking for RV's, as does Lunenberg, too many neat towns to mention. I haven't been farther west than Liverpool, but doing the big circle around the coast past Yarmouth is on the list.
If you go into New Brunswick, Kouchibouguac National Park is astounding, really well done. It's kind of north of where the bridge to PEI lands, east of Moncton.
Brian
Whew. To carry on - south of Halifax is very wet, it being the Atlantic Ocean, but west of Halifax take highway 3 along the coast. The south shore is magnificent, the fishing villages homey as heck, but due to the terrain all you can see from Highway 103 is trees. Highway 3 is the ticket. Peggys Cove has massive parking for RV's, as does Lunenberg, too many neat towns to mention. I haven't been farther west than Liverpool, but doing the big circle around the coast past Yarmouth is on the list.
If you go into New Brunswick, Kouchibouguac National Park is astounding, really well done. It's kind of north of where the bridge to PEI lands, east of Moncton.
Brian
