Bridgewater NS to Elm River Park NS

Today was another driving day. The heat has arrived here now, up to 30C and humid today and likely tomorrow too, before it breaks a bit. It's cooler along the coasts though, another reason to hug the coastline (as if we need another reason eh).

We had a good night at the Bridgewater Walmart. A cooling breeze helped. The plan is to get to a rug hooking museum today (Cathie is very into rug hooking), and do some sightseeing along the way.

First we had to drop into Lunenburg, since we were so close. We always like a visit along the waterfront there. Luckily the parking meter enforcement doesn't start until 10 am, so we got most of an hour free parking, enough for our casual tour:

Always a handsome ship or two on display

Some downtown in the background

Some lovely lines on local pleasure boats

A nasty-looking harpoon used in whaling, until 1972

 

We did drop into Mahone Bay for a short visit. It's nice they have a free parking lot on the edge of downtown, and our van can fit into it. Cathie hiked around a bit and enjoyed it as usual.

A closeup of two of the iconic church steeples 

Another very pretty harbour here

This is more harbour, both pictures are taken from the free parking area

We did get to the Rug Hooking museum. Cathie had another good browse here:

The south shore of NS is dotted with small sand beaches in amongst the typical stones. This was a small Provincial Park area, free admission:

We ended up today at Elm River Park, a campground north and west from Truro. Between the hot weather and two nights of camping with no facilities we needed some tonight. As we often do, we were set up before 3pm. Good washrooms and showers here, and laundry too, good timing for both. A nice shady site too, no site hookups though (we don't usually need any, especially after a driving day):

Our route for today: