Exploring NOVA SCOTIA's South Shore 🐚⛵ | Visiting Lunenburg, LaHave Islands, Beaches & Sea Caves!

This is where they found gold at one point on this very beach. I hope he found a lot of gold and he became a millionaire because this is a lot of work. Well the adventure continues. We are taking a ferry. Woo hoo. Ta da. Follow. To have seen the Blue Nose on a dime for all of these years and then to finally see it in person. It is just spectacular. Is that our next trip? Next summer. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That is right. Portaging in Nova Scotia. And you guys need to cycle the Rum Runner's Trail. And we'll do the Rum Runner's Trail. I got my working tools. Tonight is hamburgers, chorizo sandwich, chorizo and. Well good morning you two. Good morning. What a difference a day makes huh? Yeah. Good morning followers of YouTube. Haha. Hahaha. Yeah, a different day huh? Oh man. Yesterday was so gloomy we came to Mahon Bay and I mean it just kind of looked a little depressed. You know. It was not the best of days. Yeah. And today we are going to a new destination and we had the opportunity to go through Mahon Bay again so we decided to stop. Hey Jorge. We have the trio. Hello. It is Jorge again. Hello. Our amigos. You know that is the story. Where are we going anyway? Today we are heading to the Ovens. The Ovens. Yes, it was the site of a gold rush here in Nova Scotia. You can actually pan for gold there. Are we going to try to get rich today or what? Let's go for a gold nugget. Maybe we can buy some beer with it after. There you go. Hahaha. Let's go get it. There we go. We've got the sunshine to show us the way. Yes. Yes sirree. Let's do it. So we made it to the Ovens and we have now walked down to Cunard's Beach and this is a very famous spot because this is where they found gold at one point on this very beach. And as you can see there isn't a whole lot of beach left. That is because when they did find the gold they basically bagged up all of the sand and shipped half of it to Wales. The other half of it was processed here. And yeah, lots of gold was found and the beach was destroyed. The beach is gone basically. Any luck finding gold today? Not quite yet. Still holding out hope. Maybe we'll find that nugget that will change our lives forever. Huh? So we have made it to Tucker's Tunnel here in the Ovens. Yeah, Tucker's Tunnel. Apparently they said that Mr. Tucker found a vein of gold up there and he followed it, you know, mining all the way down here until he reached this cave. It's like a cavern. But not only that, it looks like he continued digging all the way out there because it looks like that part was man made. And that way it just ends and on this other side you have the ocean. So what a piece of work did Tucker do here. I hope he found a lot of gold and he became a millionaire because this is a lot of work. Good job Tucker. You deserve it. That was a tourist attraction. Now it is a tourist attraction. Okay, something good came out of it after all. Yeah. Okay, let's go see another one. Another one. Spiderwebs. Yeah. Lots of mosquitoes. Another fun fact. We can hear the bats. Yeah, you can. Like squeaking. They are squeaking. Chirping. Yeah. I'm glad we can hear them and not see them. That is kind of better. Haha. Just enjoy the music. I bet if we look good enough we might be able to find them though. There we go. There you go. So yeah, there is a few of these tunnels and sea caves here in the oven so we're just going to continue walking the sea cave trail and show you some of the other spots. As you probably already know Sam and I were here last summer so there is a video of that. But yeah, it is fun to be revisiting. Today is a super foggy day so we're definitely getting a different feel. A different vibe. Completely different experience. It is wet. Very wet guys. Very very wet. Watch your step. Okay. You ready? Alright, a lesson in identifying trees from George. Well these are really small trees but they still have the same characteristics as the big ones. And if you just look down here we have a spruce and a balsam fir. Okay. The spruce is prickly and you know they have some white in the leaves. They're green on top. The balsam fir is more like a flat. It's flat and when it grows up it's got quite a bit of sap on the roots. But you flip the branch over and you see how white that is eh? And those are the two main species that occur in the boreal forest. Also there's pine, there's black spruce. Black spruce is almost the same as white spruce but it's more like a northern, more northern clime in the boreal forest and you get those in the boreal forest. Cool. Thank you for that lesson. Okay. How is today's lunch Sam? It's great. Same as yesterday. Apples, baguette, sandwich with salami and cheese. Cookies. Okay. It works. And we like it. Well the adventure continues. We are taking a ferry that is being it is a cable ferry. Yeah. It is a small one but quick. Yeah. So don't blink or you may not see much on the way over. We're crossing like a sort of like a straight. Yeah. You know so instead of going around and around we're going to go across by this ferry system. Yeah, exactly. Prevent you from doing the horseshoe. And from there we're going to hit up a beach on the way to La Jolla. Woo hoo hoo hoo hoo. Ha ha ha. It's only me. Is this George or a howler monkey? One of the two. This is George the howler monkey. We have made it to beach number two. This is Risser's Beach. Probably one of my favorite beaches here in Nova Scotia's South Shore because you've got the forest and then you've got the sand so it is a really interesting combination. And yeah, it is just a super wide beach. White powdery sands and not a lot of people. If you're a person like me that hates crowding at the beach. you want to be at the beach and people are stepping all over you and throwing sand in your face while they walk. This is your place. I took the liberty and the effort of counting how many people are at the beach right now. Guess what? Sixty persons in all this monster of a beach. That's my kind of place. Okay. Yeah. And I think it's a kind of place of a lot of people that are watching this video. So if you like this type of thing, come down to Nova Scotia and you'll enjoy it. Okay. And the thing is that the water is nice and warm, but we did not bring our bathing suits because it was kind of rainy this morning, overcast and big, big mistake. We should have those in the trunk of the car all the time. No? Yeah. I'm going to strip down and go in. He's still going in his underwear. You can watch it if you want. What's coming up next? He's going to go in his underwear. You're going nature. Yeah, I'm going nature boy. Okay. I'll keep my undies on. Okay. We made a big mistake but okay. Let's go keep on walking. Walking. How is the beach naked man? Oh, it is awesome. The temperature is perfect. I mean it is not as warm as the Caribbean obviously but it is plenty, plenty warm enough to get in there. And honestly it is refreshing. Maybe the first second or two you're like oh it is a little chilly but then you get used to it right away and it just feels wonderful. Awesome. I loved it. I love it. I loved it. Alright, good morning good morning everyone. Good morning. Greetings from Lunenburg once more. We're back in Lunenburg. Maybe the most picturesque town in all of Nova Scotia. Yes, and today we are back for a very special occasion. It is to see the Blue Nose. Last time we were here last summer it was actually not in port. It was sailing around Cape Breton I believe. Yeah, exactly. And this is a very special time because it is the 100 year anniversary. Yes, of the Blue Nose 2. We couldn't have come at a more you know special time than this. And there is a lot of special festivities. There is even supposed to be an air show today. A lot of things planned for the 100th year. And it is just fantastic to be back in Lunenburg. Like the colors of this town just pop in the sunshine. And we seem to have brought good weather today. Yeah, so we got here really early this morning so we actually got to watch the Blue Nose 2 pull into port. Yes. Then we went to the Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic. Had a really nice visit there. And now we are aboard the Teresa E. Connor. Yeah. Which was a fishing vessel. It used to fish mainly cod using dories. Yep. So yeah, we're aboard here and it has been a good day. In terms of the Blue Nose one of the coolest things was just seeing them take down the sails. Oh yeah. There were like I think almost 15 people working on it. There were people way at the top, there were others on the ground that were you know rolling it in. It was just so impressive. To have seen the Blue Nose on a dime for all of these years and then to finally see it in person. It is just spectacular. And the light was hitting it in just the most optimal way. Yeah. It was just so so impressive. Yeah, so it is a really good start of the day. It is super hot. Like oh my gosh. Wow. It is Southeast Asia weather. Not really. It is tropical. But we're going to make the most of it and yeah just take you around town and show you some of the attractions. So see you in a bit. See ya. Oh. Air. Hot day. Oh Nova Scotia is on fire today. It must be close to 40 here. And yeah today we are in Lunenburg and this town is started as a fishing town you know. And right now we are on board of a schooner. A fishing schooner. This was the last schooner that did the fishing of cod. We're taking a little tour. We just took a tour of the Maritime Museum. Yeah. There is so much information and artifacts in there that it will be impossible to film everything. If you went slowly in there you could spend the whole day. Yeah. Like there is that much to see. And the thing is that these fishing schooners they did not fish with a net. These schooners they fish the cod with the line. Okay. The sailors had to get up at 4 o'clock in the morning and before they sailed to the fishing areas each sailor had to bait 20 lines of 100 meters which that would be 2 kilometers of line with hooks. Wow. They would have to be baited by every sailor before they pulled out of port. And those things were kept in a sort of a some sort of like a basket and they were curled in there with the hooks and the bait and everything. So when they got to the fishing grounds they took their little boats and they began to stretch the lines, okay, with a buoy to hold them so they won't go to the bottom. A buoy at each end and the line with the hooks, you know, like bobbing there waiting for the fish to come in and to bite. Once they had most of the day gone they would pick up the lines, pick up the fish that they were hooked, bring them to the boat, clean them up, heads and guts out and flat they would put fish, salt, fish, salt, like on layers. And when they got too short they would put them into these wooden frames kind of things where they would be dried under the sun. They had to be, you know, like switched on a daily basis, kind of rotating and stuff like that. When everything was finished, the process boxed them up in wooden crates and shipped them all over the world as dry cod, you know. That was things that worked back in the days. And when I was a small guy back in Argentina I remember going to the stores, to the grocery stores and you had the crates of cod piled up. One of them was open and the cod was there, you know, people would just grab them, weigh them and take them home and rehydrate them to cook. They were either from Finland or Norway and some of them from Canada too. Wow. They made it all the way to Argentina. Yeah, yeah. Brazil, all these areas, they had the cod. And this is how things worked back in the day. Alright, so this is how we're getting through summer in Nova Scotia. Oh yeah. Nova Scotia cooling. Yeah. Cooling station. Nice cool mist. Outdoor air conditioning. Now I'm blind. I don't see nothing. My glasses are open. I need to clean them. Okay, now that we've had our lunch and cooled down a bit with that nice mist we are going to go aboard the Bluenose 2 because they have open decks from eleven to seven. Hopefully the first wave of visitors has gone through. Yep. And yeah, now it is our turn. Let's check it out. Alright, making a little road stop. Yeah, so we've been driving now what just under an hour I think. Mmmhmm. Super rural. As soon as we left Lunenburg it was pure countryside. It's been a wonderful drive. Quite a bit of serpentine roads. Where are we going? We haven't told people. Oh yeah, we haven't even told people where we're going. We're going to the Annapolis Valley region. Mmmhmm. And um the journey so far has been really nice and scenic. We've passed through lots of farmland. We've seen lots of quaint little towns, little houses. Also we've seen some quite a few cows too. I've been filming cows along the way. Lots of farmland. Yeah. Lots of farmland. And yeah, the journey has just been really nice and comfortable and for me this is what Nova Scotia is all about. Kind of getting out into the countryside and just going through random roads and uh towns you've never heard of. Trip idea over here. Oh. So we didn't realize just the network of lakes you have in this region. We're right in this area at the moment and it is just lake, lake, lake, lake everywhere. You could go canoe hopping and portaging. You could have you could build an entire trip around Nova Scotia just pond hopping around lakes. Is that our next trip? Next summer? Yeah. That's right. Portaging in Nova Scotia. And you guys need to cycle the rum runners trail. And we'll do the rum runners trail as well. A long time ago I had a summer job in um oh Northern Ontario somewhere. Anyways it was uh widening portage trails in between this network of lakes. So in around Chapleau. You could uh relive the experience how many years later. I got bit. I got bit quite a few times during that summer job too. That's where you got your education on all of the flies of Canada. Yeah. Tell us about those. The flies in Northern Ontario. What do we got? You wake up to sand flies and mosquitoes. Yeah. And by ten o'clock or nine o'clock in the morning black flies covered you're covered in black flies believe it or not. And then the deer and the horse flies come out in the afternoon like in the heat of the day. Back to the black flies around four or five in the afternoon. Back to the no-see-ums and mosquitoes. Wow, you guys are really selling this trip here. And you know but when you're on the lakes there is less flies okay. When you're walking through the woods yes. And you plant it for late like late August like this time of year. And that is in Northern Ontario. That is not here in Nova Scotia. Yeah, well that is anywhere in Canada. If you plant it for late late August you're going to get fewer flies for sure. There you go. Do that portaging trip later in the summer. Well good afternoon. Greetings from Annapolis Royal. We've arrived after a nice little drive through farmland and charming towns. I got my working tools. Wait. My Dad's got it. There is one working tool missing here. Now we're complete. Okay. Of course. Where is my glass? I haven't even gotten one yet. There is one inside. Oh. Poor thing. Okay. Yeah. We just made it to the Annapolis Valley. We are very close to Annapolis Royal is the town. Yep. And because it was kind of getting late we just went to the supermarket. We bought a few things and we are barbecuing a few hamburgers and a couple of chorizos here because we need to recuperate. We are hungry and we don't want to mess with a lot of meal preparation and stuff like that. Tonight is going to be quick, simple and to the point. And of course first thing first we have to stop at the Liquor Commission of Nova Scotia and we bought a what did we buy? This was Italian wine. This is Italian wine. Yeah. Okay. A cheapo. And then yeah we have some buns with butter that are going to go on the grill. A little bit of cheese. Tonight is hamburgers, chorizo, sandwich, choripan. Georgie is having a beer there. Georgie come. How is it going? The driver. I just had a propeller there. I got the engine going. You got it going. But you got dry now. You know. Yeah. I drove all the way so that is why. I have a little siesta which is part of my routine. Yeah. I drive and then I have a little siesta and then it charges me up for the rest of the day. I think you've since we did our South American trip you've become the siesta king. Yeah, I've incorporated it into my life. Into your day. A new tradition. Yeah. I mean even like even if I don't drive. If I ride my bike. That would be a normal day. You get addicted. Oh my God. We created a monster in Latin America. We did. After coming back from South America it has I just stitched it into my life. Yeah. There you go.