At the end of May and early June, Gabi and I went on a long road trip to Eastern Canada. We visited three provinces: New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia. We planned to visit four national parks and some provincial parks too. Unfortunately, due to the unprecedented wildfires in Nova Scotia we had to cut our trip short (again). Last year we had to turn back early on our road trip, because an unexpected late season hurricane decided to visit Florida the same time we did. Climate change is undeniably affecting our every day lives. Anyway, on the second day of our East Canada road trip we arrived to Fundy National Park in New Brunswick (map), which is the core area of the Fundy Biosphere Reserve designated by UNESCO. We only had a short time here, but we managed to hike the Caribou Plain Trail. Here we saw the amazing Caribou Lake and some beautiful wildflowers.
After leaving Fundy NP, we visited the Hopewell Rocks Provincial Park (map). The Bay of Fundy is famous for its massive tides. These tides are constantly eroding the coast and creating some spectacular rock formations along the shoreline. Some of the most stunning ones are at Hopewell Rocks PP. We arrived at low tide so we could walk on the ocean floor and took some photos of these free-standing sea stacks.
We didn’t have time to wait for high tide and it would have been dark anyway, so after a short time we continued to our next destination, the Prince Edward Island. We spent two full days here and there will be a separate post about Canada’s smallest province, but here’s an image of PEI’s one of many lighthouses as it sits atop a stunning red cliff, an iconic look of the Island.
Even though all of the US East Coast was already on high alert of the smoke from the wildfires of Nova Scotia, fortunately, we hadn’t noticed anything while visiting PEI. When we left for Nova Scotia, the forecast predicted lots of rain so we weren’t really concerned about going to NS. When we arrived to the Cape Breton Highlands National Park (map) it had already been raining, but next day we realized that all of the park’s hiking trails were closed due to the wildfires so we couldn’t take any hike in the park. We drove the famous Cabot Trail along the rugged coastline of Nova Scotia, but in the heavy rain we couldn’t see much of the normally spectacular sights. Since all hiking trails were closed in all Nova Scotia, we decided to skip the other national park of the province and in two days we drove back home to CT, USA. It was still a great road trip and we are glad we were able to see some beautiful parts of Canada.
Gear: Canon EOS 5Ds and EOS 5Ds R cameras, Canon 17-40mm, 70-200mm, 300mm lenses
