Rest of Nova Scotia

As I am from Nova Scotia and have returned there at on an annual basis, it wasn't as much of a priority for this trip (outside of Cape Breton).

On our way back after the 6 hour ferry from Newfoundland to North Sydney we stopped at a free boondocking site across the road from a church in Whycocomagh, Cape Breton (marked A on the map). Dusk had arrived and we are trying to stay off the road at night throughout the trip as a rule.

Nothing special, but the price was right and it overlooked a part of Bras D'or Lake, which was nice to wake up to. Always good to have fellow boondockers around like above to know the site is legitimate. We use the iOverlander app to find such sites. Basically people upload sites they've used for free overnighters and others comment when they have successfully used them (or not) as well. It's quite a handy app, but not batting 1.000 by any means.

We then stopped over at a sewage tank dump site in New Glasgow before heading to my parent's home in Cooks Brook (an RV is basically a classy outhouse on wheels, it seems). Kenting was kind enough to take over at the wheel while I did the dirty work.

We spent the next couple weeks at my home in Cooks Brook (B), which is an hour north of Halifax on the mainland.

It's a beautiful spot in its own right, and I was sad to leave with the prospect that this might be Kenting's last time here--it seems unlikely he will be up for a third trip across the Pacific Ocean in his lifetime (we brought him over from South Korea when he was 1, and now he is 7). You never know though!

Either way, once Kenting knew we were going, he was adamant he'd be coming along.

... So we drove on.

P.S. We also visited our older brother's family in the Annapolis Valley and went to the Bay of Fundy a few times. I wasn't in camera mode then though, so I only took a few from Burntcoathead Park. Nice place, the Bay of Fundy!