Exploring Nova Scotia's SOUTH SHORE! (Peggy’s Cove, Lunenburg, & MORE!)

Nova Scotia is surrounded by four major bodies of water and boasts 13,000 km of Coastline giving it the nickname Canada's ocean playground and over the next few days we're road tripping around part of Nova Scotia Southshore a coastal area filled with charming and historic towns beautiful beaches and seafood and first we're heading to the iconic Peggy's Cove for [Music] Sunrise [Music] [Music] there are over 160 lighthouses in Nova Scotia and the Peggy Cove Lighthouse is the most iconic of them all it's said to be the most photographed Lighthouse not only in Nova Scotia but in all of Canada the original Peggy's Cove lighthouse House was built in 1868 and was made out of wood but was replaced by this version in 1914 which is 15 M tall and has an octagonal shape and while it has guided ships for its entire existence it's also played another role it was the town's post office until 2009 it is a picture perfect Lighthouse and I just love the scenery around it with this Rocky Coastline and the reason that we came for Sunrise is because one it looked like it was going to be a nice Sunrise morning but mostly to beat the crowds because we hear this place gets crazy busy I think in like an hour or so a bunch of tour buses are going to come here and just drop off hundreds of people and they're just going to be scattered all among the rocks kind of like ants on an antill so it was very much worth getting up early especially after our late night out at the moose heads game to get to experience this with some seclusion although we're so [Music] tired while the lighthouse is beautiful I think our favorite part of Peggy's Cove is actually the village itself it's just this small fishing village with all these houses perched along the edge of this narrow inlet all these Boulders strown around it's just so quaint and charming and it reminds us of all the little fishing villages we saw all over New [Music] Finland one of the top foods to eat here in Nova Scotia is Lobster in fact the town of barington on the South Shore is said to be the lobster capital of Canada so of course we had to get some Lobster wall here on the Southshore went to Tom's Lobster Shack here in Peggy's Cove to get a lobster roll we've had lobster rolls a handful of times but what makes this place special is that they do kind of a a Twist on the traditional lobster roll they have a few different flavor profiles to choose from but we got their Cajun one which is cold Lobster that's tossed in mayo and it has some Cajun spices on top and it kind of looks like a a Cajun aoli as well they have loaded this thing with lobster it's going to be a messy one I don't I don't even know where to start with this thing all right you just got to get in and get your hands dirty oh my gosh oh no damn that's good did we get a fork I don't this is intense this thing is loaded I need a napkin it's like in my nose the lobster is so tender and delicious and I'm not normally a Mayo fan I tend to prefer butter on my lobster rolls but this one is really really good even with the Mayo it just makes it nice and creamy and then when you get that Cajun seasoning or like the kind of Cajun Mayo that's grizzled on top it just gives it like an extra punch of [Music] flavor there are tons of cool little towns along Ong the Southshore and for the rest of the day we're heading about an hour away to Mahone Bay mahome Bay is a bay with hundreds of islands including the famous Oak Island with its hidden treasure and the town of mahome Bay itself has been listed as one of Canada's most beautiful towns it's most known for having these three picturesque churches right next to each other along the Waterfront but besides that it also has a bunch of colorful Victorian homes and local shops so we're going to go wander around and explore but first we are dragging so hard today we're both really struggling to stay awake so we're going to go get some [Music] coffee we popped into the barn coffee and social house which is a coffee shop and they also have a store with a bunch of local items and gifts and a bunch of cool things that you can buy and since it's fall we got pumpkin spice lattes with whipped cream and then also they have these gluten-free vegan pumpkin Donuts so we're having like a pumpkin Fiesta I'm going to do the ultimate pumpkin seion take the dut dip it in the pumpkin spice oh fall doesn't know it hit it right now that's [Music] right that was all whipped cream but it's so D good oh man it's so cakey M I got to say we've traveled all around North America and Nova Scotia may have like the greatest concentration of just super cute high quality coffee shops and cafes we've been blown away by just the amazing places we've gone to and just like the last week [Music] here make a friend H who's [Music] that [Music] we didn't really know what to expect from Mahon B but it has really exceeded our expectations has this nice Waterfront that you can walk along and it also has a bunch of really neat shops you can walk into and one of the more popular ones is emis putor putor is a tin alloy and it has been used since Roman times for household items like mugs and silverware and at Amos pter you can not only buy a wide variety of pwer goods but they also have pre demonstration where you can watch how they turn cast molten peeter and polish it which was super cool to see one of the neatest things was when she took a spoonful of the molten peor and then just spilled it over the table and it instantly hardened and then she could just pick it right up and then just dump it right back into the pot of all the hot liquid and it just melted right back in that was we were both like waa going into a jewelry store may not sound like the most exciting activity and it's honestly something that we never ever do but we highly recommend it it was super unique and fascinating we actually got Adam's mom a belated birthday gift and I'm pretty sure by the time this video comes out we will have already given it to her but if not surprise happy birthday we hope you like it but after seeing the demonstration we just had such a greater appreciation for all the items we were looking at while we were perusing for the [Music] present tonight we're staying in a parking lot right in the heart of Mahone Bay and we found this spot on I Overlander which has been our go-to here in Canada even though this is a parking lot it is a pretty nice Scenic spot overlooking the [Music] water this morning we headed 15 15 minutes down the road to Lunenburg which is a UNESCO world heritage site in one of only two urban communities in North America with this designation it is considered to be the best surviving planned British Colonial Town in North America with 70% of its original colonial buildings [Music] remaining we got a big lobster [Music] corner lunenberg is one of the towns we were most excited to visit during our time in Atlantic Canada it reminds us a lot of the towns we visited in New England earlier this year there's so many old colorful buildings and it makes you feel like you're walking back in time or walking through a [Music] postcard the most iconic thing to see in lunenberg is the blue noose 2 this is a replica of the blue noose which is the most famous ship in Canadian history so much so that it is on the Canadian 10cent coin the blue noose was a two-masted schooner that was both a fishing and racing vessel in the 1920s and 30s known for its impressive speed in winning The International Fisherman's cup many times it unfortunately hit a reef and sank in the 1940s and they created the blue noose 2 in the 1960s to honor it from June through September you can actually go sale on the blue noose 2 unfortunately we're a bit too late for that as you can see it's currently wrapped up like a Christmas present for the winter so to learn a bit about it and the area's fishing history we're going to check out the Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic [Music] Instead This museum is so much larger inside than we expected it has three floors where you can find a small aquarium exhibits on the blue noos and Indigenous history information on how you dry fish and tons of fishing and ship artifacts there is a lot to see in here I'm kind of on like information overload right now just looking at everything trying to read all the signs but it's a very well done Museum but besides the inside of the museum your admission also gets you access to a ship the Teresa EC [Music] Conor Our rough SE is ahead [Music] I always love getting to come on these old ships and just envisioning what life would be like if I was living on this thing this table's pretty cool cuz there's like a channel here for uh all the plates to rest in I'm guessing when it gets real rocking so then your your plate doesn't get away from you all right for dinner tonight we're having hog Down Pie bean soup bread butter cookies cake Apple Jack tea and coffee sign me up I'll be here where's the food hurry up I'm hungry this bed's actually really comfortable yeah I'll be here see you later you can finish the video without [Music] me tonight we're staying in another parking lot but this time it's the par parking lot of light ship Brewery which is a harvest host if you're unfamiliar with Harvest host it's a membership program for those with self-contained RVs and vans where you can stay at farms wineries breweries golf courses and museums for free with the expectation that you support their business if you'd like to sign up we have a 15% off link and code that we'll put in the description and the pin comment below we have stayed at Harvest host all across North America but we normally don't stay at breweries because we don't drink but lucky for us this one has coffee and food too [Music] we got some wings some poutine and San peligros in these cool goblets but the star of the show here is this view of Lunenburg it's worth coming here for food and drinks for the view [Music] alone [Music] Nova Scotia has three national parks Sable Island Cape Breton Highlands which we visited a couple videos ago in Kim makui or kji for short kji has two areas to explore a Seaside unit and an inland unit and today we're headed to the seaside unit to hike the harbor rocks [Music] Trail we hear that it's somewhat common to see bears in this park and I've actually read a couple reviews where people saw a mama bear and some Cubs on this Trail and even on the beach we tend to never see Bears when we're expecting them so I doubt we will see one but man how cool would it be to see a bear just walking along the [Music] beach we haven't seen any bears yet but we have seen five or six seals hanging out in the water out here and one was even shimmying up onto the Rock Island out there so [Music] cool we have made it to the end of the harbor rocks Trail and it ends at the St Catherine's River Beach which obviously I'm a little biased but it sounds like the best beach ever this beach is huge it spans super far back that way and it just has this grayish white sand and super blue crystal clear water it is the most beautiful beach that we have seen in Nova Scotia and I'm not just saying that cuz it's named after me we just realized that this is our 12th Canadian national park there are 38 national parks and 10 National Park reserves so we are a quarter of the way there but we're not quite done with kji just yet tomorrow we are going on an overnight Adventure in the Inland portion and we are so pumped but unlike our other overnight Adventures we're not going to be using our feet on this one we have a different mode of [Music] transportation