Adventurous Leila

We were camped on Brier Island for five days. In order to get to the island you have to take two separate ferries. My parents had to time out everything just right to make sure we were crossing during high tide otherwise the RV would scrape really bad when loading. I really liked the spot we chose because we were parked right next to the lighthouse with the ocean all around us. Someone had made a rock pile where people paint a rock and add it to the pile. Right down the road from us was a farm with cute fluffy cows, pigs and tons of chickens.

Our first full day there we drove the entire island in about 15 minutes. We stopped at the general store/gas station to buy anti nausea medicine to take for whale watching and ended up getting a ton of Canadian candy to try. Across the street from the general store was a dock with signs about the island so we checked that out. Next we went to the whale watch gift shop. They had all local made art, jewelry, shirts and cards. My mom bought some post cards that had the light house we’re camped at to send to her friends. Since the island was so small with not a lot to do we headed home for dinner and watched Outlast on Nexflix. I highly recommend it, we ended up binge watching it until 1 in the morning.

The next day we went to the other island for a hike so we had to take the ferry again. The hike was called balancing rock. It was pretty fun even though I was grumpy. The trail was 1.4 mile out and back with 235 stairs down to the rock. It was beautiful scenery along the trail with lots of flowers, vines and skunk cabbage. After the long board walk and all the stairs it spits you out to an overlook of the balancing rock and great view of the ocean. We took some pictures and rested for a bit before making our way back up the 20 million stairs. We stopped at a park for a late lunch before heading back to the RV for the night.

On the last full day there I packed in lots of journaling and blogs and one last tiny thing… Whale Watching! It was so exciting but it didn’t start until 5pm sadly. When we got to the boat we picked out our seats then the crew started telling us the rules and the history of whale watching in Fundy Bay, Nova Scotia. Our captain has been taking people out for 35+ years. It all started because some researchers from Maine were tracking the whales and curious if the same whales migrated up here, and guess what, they found multiple of the same whales here. They told us that the bottom of a whales tail is just like our fingerprint, all unique so that’s one of the ways they tell them apart. Once we departed it wasn’t long before we spotted the first of the whales. I got tons of photos with my camera and posted some on my new instagram “adventurousleila” make sure to follow. The whale watching was wonderful and I couldn’t believe I got to see such amazing creatures. When the evening came to an end we headed home to start drive day chores, because in the morning we were headed to Clark Harbor and the most southern point of Nova Scotia.