Cape Breton is an island of Nova Scotia and it is chock full of bays, peninsulas, large lakes and rivers, in addition to being surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean. Basically there’s water wherever you look.
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You can get screech’d in at many place, but Christian’s in St John’s is legendary. The entire bar shuts down during the 45 minute ceremony which is run by Lukie, a local dressed in his full wet weather fishing garb (sou’wester hat and heavy raincoat).
After exploring the Laurentian mountains and Charlevoix area north of Le Fleuve, our travels were taking us now to the Gaspésie peninsula in Quebec, and 10 days of hiking and camping.
Our Quebec travels continued in the Laurentian mountains on the north west side of the St Lawrence River (aka le Fleuve) in Saguenay and Charlevoix regions.
With the car stuffed to the gills with everything we might want for a summer of fun we took off on Canada Day on our Canadian road trip extravaganza. Our trip would take us from Ontario all the way across Canada, stopping in Quebec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland – with a side trip to Boston and Cape Cod for good measure!
Following our trip to Spain, we had been planning on almost immediately heading to Northern Ontario for some camping and hiking, but in the end we decided to spend six weeks at the family cottage a couple of hours north of Toronto, resting and recovering and readying ourselves for our East Coast adventures starting in July.