We’ve only two days left in NS and we’ve been out in the Valley and its beaches a few times but today we’re going to walk out on Cape Split. It’s a walk I remember we did when I visited in the early 90’s and will take us right out into the Bay of Fundy and NS’s most westerly point.
We breakfast late and head to a local vineyard for a wine tasting before we start the walk. Summer had suggested we go and it’s a great idea as neither of us knew there were vineyards in Canada, let alone Canadian wines ready for tasting! There are some really unique wines here that we try, one with a grape that is one found in NS and when you first smell the wine you think it will be desert-sweet, but on tasting it is a dry white. Odd, but nice! Another we like is a red which is to be served chilled and this goes down very well. We also notice on their books is an “ice wine” which is brewed from grapes that have been harvested when frozen and kept frozen but only warming up in the fermentation process.
Not too tipsy we head out with our sandwiches in the afternoon for our walk, stopping off on the top of the 'mountain' to view the valley.
Arriving at Cape Split, we have a nice hike through a wooded path that gradually climbs uphill and we manage to avoid the many roots that rise out of the ground.
The land is flatter as we approach the end of the split and the trees finish to about 50m of grassland before it falls straight down off the cliffs. We eat our sandwiches and drink the beers we’ve also brought with us in the sun.
Al then tries to fly the kite he’s bought but it’s only as he lets it out to its full length does he see that the string it’s on isn’t attached to the spool so evasive action is taken to tie the line!
However, while everyone's attention is diverted by this first emergency, the wind picks up and begins to overpower the kits. Despite everyone's best attempts, the Dollarama special gets caught in a tree; its final resting place.
On our way back Al takes us on a “secret path” that not many people know about. The path wears away and we lose it, so spend about thirty minutes scrabbling through scrub and off-roading before we find the main path we arrived on. We keep an eye out for the “secret path” and it does join the main path again, so it must just be a section in the middle that has overgrown. We're forced to keep going quickly, though, as time has run away with us and it’s going to be tight to get to the ball game tonight in time.
With a record-breaking 10 minute turn-around at the house Jan and Al have their kit on and we’re out the door. Fin and the others are already there with the kit bag and warming up, so Jan and Al stroll into the final positions for batters and get onto the field in the second innings.
It’s a close match this time and although the Canning Team take an early lead with high scores and good fielding in the early innings, the opponents get it back to within a few runs. We’re trying to keep score but still not quite sure of all the rules, so have to wait until we see the teams faces at the end of the match. Good job – Canning Crabs have another win!
We end the day with two classic items from the Nova Scotia menu; poutine and donnair. It’s impossible to keep a straight face when ordering especially as it sounds like we’re asking for a posh version of donner kebab, but it's similar to its European cousin. Poutine is chips smothered in gravy with cheese curd melted in; this place doesn’t have cheese curd and so it’s jut melted cheese, but is still pretty good! Donnair varies from donner kebab in that it is beef instead of lamb and instead of tzaziki sauce it is an almost sweet barbeque sauce. Both are yum!
We breakfast late and head to a local vineyard for a wine tasting before we start the walk. Summer had suggested we go and it’s a great idea as neither of us knew there were vineyards in Canada, let alone Canadian wines ready for tasting! There are some really unique wines here that we try, one with a grape that is one found in NS and when you first smell the wine you think it will be desert-sweet, but on tasting it is a dry white. Odd, but nice! Another we like is a red which is to be served chilled and this goes down very well. We also notice on their books is an “ice wine” which is brewed from grapes that have been harvested when frozen and kept frozen but only warming up in the fermentation process.
Not too tipsy we head out with our sandwiches in the afternoon for our walk, stopping off on the top of the 'mountain' to view the valley.
Arriving at Cape Split, we have a nice hike through a wooded path that gradually climbs uphill and we manage to avoid the many roots that rise out of the ground.
The land is flatter as we approach the end of the split and the trees finish to about 50m of grassland before it falls straight down off the cliffs. We eat our sandwiches and drink the beers we’ve also brought with us in the sun.
Al then tries to fly the kite he’s bought but it’s only as he lets it out to its full length does he see that the string it’s on isn’t attached to the spool so evasive action is taken to tie the line!
However, while everyone's attention is diverted by this first emergency, the wind picks up and begins to overpower the kits. Despite everyone's best attempts, the Dollarama special gets caught in a tree; its final resting place.
On our way back Al takes us on a “secret path” that not many people know about. The path wears away and we lose it, so spend about thirty minutes scrabbling through scrub and off-roading before we find the main path we arrived on. We keep an eye out for the “secret path” and it does join the main path again, so it must just be a section in the middle that has overgrown. We're forced to keep going quickly, though, as time has run away with us and it’s going to be tight to get to the ball game tonight in time.
With a record-breaking 10 minute turn-around at the house Jan and Al have their kit on and we’re out the door. Fin and the others are already there with the kit bag and warming up, so Jan and Al stroll into the final positions for batters and get onto the field in the second innings.
It’s a close match this time and although the Canning Team take an early lead with high scores and good fielding in the early innings, the opponents get it back to within a few runs. We’re trying to keep score but still not quite sure of all the rules, so have to wait until we see the teams faces at the end of the match. Good job – Canning Crabs have another win!
We end the day with two classic items from the Nova Scotia menu; poutine and donnair. It’s impossible to keep a straight face when ordering especially as it sounds like we’re asking for a posh version of donner kebab, but it's similar to its European cousin. Poutine is chips smothered in gravy with cheese curd melted in; this place doesn’t have cheese curd and so it’s jut melted cheese, but is still pretty good! Donnair varies from donner kebab in that it is beef instead of lamb and instead of tzaziki sauce it is an almost sweet barbeque sauce. Both are yum!
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