The End of Canada, Eh?

Due to lacking funds and the desire to actually have a stereotypical road-trippy, caffeine-fueled late night haul (which we had yet to experience), we made the drive into New Brunswick around 3 am from Quebec, slept for a couple of hours at a gas station, then used the entire next day to make it all the way across the province to Nova Scotia. Now, let’s talk about Canadian gas prices for a second.  Roughly the equivalent of $5.50 a gallon, they charge by the liter...hence the gas station sleeping situation. Aside from impending poverty, New Brunswick was a beautiful & very rural province full of pine trees, rivers (think ‘Bongo’), and apparently moose…although we have yet to see one this trip (I have my hopes here in Louisiana, as we passed a ‘Watch for Bears’ sign in Mississippi…). The drive was grueling and expensive, but worth it to see the gorgeous country we put behind us.

Nova Scotia is exactly what you Anne of Green Gables fans imagine it to be, full of marshland, tall grass, and beautiful meadows surrounded by tall trees and an even more beautiful coastline. We spent the afternoon and evening exploring as far as we could get to along the coast of the stunning Bay of Fundy (the roads where flooded out to the main tip of the coast, unfortunately), truck camped in a little secluded meadow very popular to local deer populations, then woke up with the sun to brave the thickest fog either of us have ever seen and make it up to Prince Edward Island for a day of oysters and beach. Now, we did indeed get a lovely day of oysters and rich red beach, HOWEVER, word to the wise: when you enter PEI across the 7 mile long bridge, there is no type of warning as to the $45.00 toll that awaits as you attempt to make your return trip, which makes the quaint beauty of the island a tad bit less beautiful. That being said, we still had a very worth-while last jaunt in the more eastern side of our northern neighbor.