so audrey accidentally dropped my cone what  

happened there i licked it too  hard you looked at it too hard  

good morning everyone morning hello hello  greeting once again from nova scotia yes  

today we're going on a little bit of a road  trip here in nova scotia south shore we're  

going to be heading to lahave islands can't wait  we're going to be doing a cable ferry crossing  

we're going to be visiting some beaches doing  some hiking and we're also going to be doing  

an attraction that many locals in lunenburg have  been suggesting the ovens the ovens yes we're also  

going to hit up lahave bakery apparently it's a  must do whenever you're crossing over on the ferry  

so yeah we're pretty pumped for today's outing  we have a beautiful day blue skies great weather  

light breeze yeah i'm starting to think that  nova scotia is the sunshine paradise of canada  

yeah it sure seems that way it seems day after day  we get nice weather like this i don't know how we  

got so lucky so we are gonna hit the road again  we're super close to the ferry we're gonna show  

you that crossing and yeah let's do it yeah road  tripping in nova scotia canada guys gotta love it

we completely winged this day of road tripping  across the lahave islands but honestly it turned  

out to be one of our favorite days on nova  scotia south shore this day was based entirely  

on local suggestions and the odd roadside  stop whenever something peaked our interest  

we hadn't done much research so we didn't know  what to expect and that was the beauty of it

the ferry crossing was quick and easy we crossed  the lahave river from east lahave to lahave how  

many times can you say lahave in one sentence this  was a very short crossing to avoid a big detour  

through bridgewater and it meant we were ready to  start our island hopping adventure a bit sooner

well guys we just got on the ferry and we are  moving like we literally drove on and 30 seconds  

later it's like oh we're going we're on our way  i know and normally the ferry is seven dollars  

but it is free right now i think because of  the situation that's going on yes oh yeah  

a little bit of information there we're  doing this trip in september early september  

and yeah apparently it's a super short  crossing just like five or seven minutes  

so sam is snapping photos filming some video clips  yeah this is amazing it's nice it's a cable car  

fairy yeah but it you know it's the size of uh you  know it's it's not as small as i thought it would  

be it could hold approximately 10 to 12 vehicles  9 to 12 vehicles i think and there's also room for  

quite a few uh pedestrians and cyclists so you  know i was i was kind of expecting like a raft  

of vehicles on the raft because we  did a crossing on lake titicaca from  

bolivia to peru or peru to bolivia and honestly  it was kind of sketchy when i saw what what they  

put the bus on yeah and don't mind me guys this is  such a short crossing that i'm i'm filming at the  

moment you can see i'm you know we're almost  there we'll see you guys on the other side

once we got off the ferry we turned left and  hit the lahave bakery right away we'd recommend  

arriving around lunch because that's when they  have their full menu featuring smoked salmon  

bagels smoked meat paninis breakfast sandwiches  and more we got there a little too early for that

all right time to try this all so we have  i'm going to try in the mediterranean wrap  

pizza the date square that's  a pretty eclectic lunch but um  

yeah one thing i want to mention too is that just  inside of the store it's got this awesome vintage  

look the store dates back to the 1800s so they've  got all kinds of interesting artifacts and  

decorations inside a pretty cool spot for sure  you can see why people recommend it so highly

um oh really tasty try the pizza somebody's  taking a nibble out of the pizza already  

who would that have been i don't know our mouth

three cheese pizza this is more like  a pizza bun this just hits the spot  

it's gonna give us enough energy so we can start  exploring and last but not least the date square

oh yeah super thick layer of date that's  

that's my favorite item for sure yeah great little  bakery and um nice to be having some lunch here

lahave river books is located in the back of the  building and they have an entire section dedicated  

to local authors as well as books of local  interest there's also a really nice seating area  

out back with picnic benches and chairs so it's  a nice stop before kicking off your lahave island

adventure

people got tired of old dublin  so they made a new dublin  

we're driving through new york we got tired  of old dublin so they made a new dublin  

sing along audrey people got tired of old  dublin so they made a new dublin on youtube  

all right so we have reached the first stop of  the day we've just arrived at crescent beach  

and i've just learned an interesting fact about  this place apparently this is called a tombolo  

which is a sandbar that extends from the mainland  off towards an island this particular one  

is two kilometers in length and it varies  in width it's between 40 to 65 meters  

so yeah we're gonna be driving down here after  we visit the beach and doing a little bit of  

island hopping so yeah it should be a lot of  fun observations it smells salty and it smells  

seaweedy like i'm thinking of all the adults we  were eating in grand manan just a few weeks ago  

doesn't it smell like dolls yes it does it smells  like salty sea wonderful smell i don't know if i'd  

say it's wonderful i love it i love it i want  to live by the sea someday guys that's my dream  

that's my new dream new dream not mountains now  it's sea mountain dancing even better one unusual  

thing that i'm noticing is that people are able to  drive right down to the beach with their vehicles  

so if you look over my shoulder like there's a lot  of vans and suvs just parked along the edge and  

then you can just walk on down to the water set  up your picnic your little day tent or whatever  

and yeah it's just a beautiful area so peaceful  like there's hardly any people out here  

that's really cool sam has gone into the water  getting nice and salty out there um but yeah just  

a beautiful day to be out on the beach and then  we're gonna continue driving down that way and  

begin our island hopping so i'm looking forward  to that why do you look like you peed your pants  

i tried my best i hiked up my shorts and it  still didn't work out so i was trying to get  

look this is this is the thing i was trying to  get some salt water on my wound that's healing  

supposed to be great for it and i went in  a little too much a wave came and splashed  

me really good so now i'm soaking i i saw this  happening in slow motion i warned you yeah yeah

island number one bush island first  island of the day yeah we're going  

to be doing quite a few guys so  yeah this is just the beginning  

it's an island hopping day there's a there's a  network of these islands out in this particular  

area lahave islands the hay violence this is  particular bush island and we'll see what we find

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well island hop and update update all right so we  crossed from crescent beach we sure did over to  

bush island then jenkins island then bell island  we have made it to lahave island that's a whole  

lot of violence yeah one thing we've discovered  is that it's mostly like cottages and private  

property yeah it is that's basically what it  is yeah i mean there's a cool museum that's  

being renovated at the moment oh my bad nibbling  on scones too so there's a museum what's that one  

called something yeah there's a maritime museum  right on one of these islands you see it as soon  

as you cross the bridge because it's painted  orange you won't miss it yeah it's on this one  

actually the lahave islands yeah yeah we just  enjoy the drive assistant yes incredibly scenic  

lots of forest and these these properties are  fantastic because they haven't been cleared too  

much kind of just a pathway to the house and you  still have the ruggedness out here so it does feel  

like you're in the forest i love that about it  and it's very hilly like we've been going up some  

steep hills getting this little baby up here we  go up and then we go down and then we go yeah and  

then we go across the bridge yeah but it's been  a lot of fun like i've enjoyed the island hopping  

even though it wasn't what i imagined i thought  there would be like more access to the beaches  

but it's more if you have your own vessels like  there's a lot of um docking points for like water  

access stuff like that exactly i mean you're  not coming here for a main tourist attraction  

when you're coming here for the basically for the  for the drive and it's a beautiful drive and yeah  

well worth it in my opinion yeah and you have  crescent beach which is massive and now we're  

going to the one that's just north of it yeah  it's wristers it's i think provincial park yeah  

yeah or national park no i think provincial  park and that's what's up next yeah  

hi hey look at this little slice of paradise  

we found on the side of the  road this is just incredible  

probably my favorite spot of the whole day it's  just so rugged so beautiful i don't see any homes  

i don't see any people i just feel like this is  our own little spot our own little private place  

see lots of seaweed yellow seaweed it is seaweed  for sure it's just amazing i just love it here

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so we then continued on to wrister's beach  provincial park which sits at the mouth  

of the petite riviere the park has a 1.5  kilometer stretch of sheltered sandy beach  

plus a boardwalk that runs along an inland marsh

hi what did you think of wristers park  racers beach beach park there we go  

lots to do here oh yeah so we started  off by going to the beach didn't  

the water oh the like a little ice cube but  really nice to walk on the beach i wouldn't swim  

i i got a knee-deep i thought it was okay i  mean yeah it's definitely chilly i'll give  

you that yeah i'll give you that but they also  have a really nice boardwalk that goes through  

marshland that's really pretty there's a few  forest trails where it's like really mossy and  

cool like cooler temperatures yeah also a place  that i think you can go camping there's an rv  

area and also plenty of picnic benches and a  canteen which sells ice cream and also like  

i think fast food like hamburgers and stuff  like that so a great place to bring a family  

or to go as a couple or even to come as you're  by yourself because we just love it here  

we then hop back on the ferry and headed across  the lahave river but don't worry our canada road  

trip wasn't over yet we still had a few more  places we wanted to visit on the drive back  

hello whoa whoa he loves putting the camera in  my face hello hey guys back on the ferry back on  

the ferry world's quickest crossing basically  we're almost there yes we're heading back to  

east lahave and we're going to do a few more stops  along the way before we get back to lunenburg some  

nature outdoorsy hikes and that kind of thing  there's another there's another beach to visit  

and there's the ovens so the ovens yes you got it  right this time the ovens we've called it right  

the pots the ceramics everything it's the ovens  everything other than the ovens finally called  

it what it's supposed to be called oh the thing i  wanted to mention nova scotia's awesome slogan for  

its license plate is canada's ocean playground  perfect huh we've been doing that all day

turtle's beach was our next stop but  first a little ice cream stop because  

who can resist an ice cream truck certainly not us

i'm hungry okay this is this is like my  first treat of the day though since lunch  

there's lunch we are hungry got ice cream  okay so the one you're trying which is mine  

is the mariner sea salt karma and the peanut  butter fudge crunch so glad what do you got  

um that's by chocolate which is good yep and some  rainbow that one here is called moon mist yeah  

i think it's a flavor for kids because it tastes  like bubble gum i just thought it sounded nice but  

realistically the chocolate is better you got a  kid's flavor sam is on his second cone so audrey  

accidentally dropped my cone what happened there  i was filming i licked it too hard you licked  

it too hard the flavor was too delicious and  anyways we went back to benny's ice cream truck  

and i'm not sure if it's benny who works  there but let's assume that it is benny  

benny's a great guy we offered to pay him for a  brand new one and he insisted that we got a cone  

gratis so for free and uh what what a nice  person to do that so if you're coming here  

enjoy some delicious ice cream and try not to drop  your clothes yeah don't drop your cone like us  

but go try some delicious ice  cream at benny's ice cream truck

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dude what's going on i feel each and every time  i get over confident i have my pants hold up like  

this that's way too much like for youtube okay  yeah i know that's some very pasty legs apologies  

for that oh my goodness it's been so nice to get  salty now for what the third or fourth time today  

but i'll say this about this beach this has  been the nicest one to go in barefoot just  

beautiful fan and the waters are a little  bit clearer once you go in his wall  

just love this one this is my favorite hurdles  beach beach yeah at least for the experience of  

walking in into the water this is the best one  and beautiful cliffs oh gosh in this direction  

look at some of the real estate i mean could you  get a better view and then there's gaff point  

in the other direction we're not gonna  make it there um it's like a two hour walk  

the the benny said at the ice cream shop  they're probably not even there probably  

we're gonna call him benny because that's the  name of the shop so benny said two hours or  

40 minutes we've actually got the ovens left to  visit and it's now for 4 20 so we do need to get