Been there in cars several times. August seemed good bet for weather; be prepped for wind if you're camping.Been wanting to do this ride for several years and the summer of '24 looks like the time.
I'd be interested in any comments or suggestions from anyone who has ridden the island.
Nice to hear Bob , which year were you over ?Been to Nova Scotia a few times. I recommend riding up the east coast, stopping at some nice places. Lunenburg, The Swiss Air flight 111 memorial, Peggys cove, The Citadel in Halifax (and the Halifax water front), Sherbrooke Village, are all places I enjoyed riding to and stopping at. If you keep riding the coast past Sherbrooke, you can take the Country Harbour Ferry. All very memorable, and in that order from south to north riding the coast.
Then of course you have to proceed up to Cape Breton Island. We stay in Baddeck when up there for a couple of nights. I like the Cabot Trail Motel & Restaurant. It's slightly out of town, but right on the lake. It also has a decent restaurant on site, that over looks the lake. You of course have to ride the Cabot trail. That's a day in itself. (thus the two nights in Baddeck ) I recommend riding the counter clockwise direction when riding the trail. To me, it has much better views, and you're riding on the ocean side of the road.
Then if you're riding in or out of NS on the highway rather than taking a ferry to/from the US, check out Truro. You have to check the tides chart, but you can experience the Tidal Bore. It's one of those things that you should not pass up seeing. They have a nice park called the Fundy Discovery Site, that's a great place to watch the tidal wave come up the Salmon River. I think there is only a few places in the world where this phenomenon takes place.
There's other things and places, but this is where I would start. I enjoyed so much when with the riding buddies, I brought the wife up later, so she could enjoy it. Which she did. We also spent time on Price Edward Island as well. Since we had the time, we used it.
The last time I had the pleasure of visiting NB, NS, PEI and of course Cape Bretton was just last year in June (2022). So really it's more like a year and a half ago.Nice to hear Bob , which year were you over ?
Oh nice ! Wish i would of known !!The last time I had the pleasure of visiting NB, NS, PEI and of course Cape Bretton was just last year in June (2022). So really it's more like a year and a half ago.
I did the entire Eastern seaboard all the way up to Halifax and Cape Breton Island. Nova Scotia was okay, pretty level terrain with some shoreline, but Cape Breton was fantastic! Would have gone to Newfoundland but the ferry was around $250 I think. We figured we could at least say we touched the Northeastern most point of the continent accessible by road.Been wanting to do this ride for several years and the summer of '24 looks like the time.
I'd be interested in any comments or suggestions from anyone who has ridden the island.
Where you at in Maine?We went in a Chevy Vega (GT) in November 1976 poor as church mice on our honeymoon. The hotel we stayed at in Nova Scotia was a madhouse - everyone was drunk, noisily staggering around, slamming doors, arguing and falling down. I went to speak to the management - they were drunk too. We went up the east side - cold in late November. Came back with pocket change. The stop leak I used in the Vega plugged up the heater core. We came back to Maine cold, hungry, and broke. That was 47 years ago. We're close (Maine) maybe we'll give it another try.