Port Hood and the Ceilidh trail
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| Private home on cape |
We are quite taken with the small, very cute town on the west coast of Nova Scotia, called Port Hood. Our campground is on the beach front with views of an island across the bay. This small fishing/lobster town has neat, trim houses and gardens, most of which sit on hillsides with great views of the bay. Across on the island, we can see a grouping of houses and it looks idyllic. We learned the only way over there is by a hired boat and most of the homes are summer homes owned by Americans or people from Montreal. Most of the building materials were trucked over to the island in the winter when they can construct an ice road. I estimate that it would be between 1/4 and 1/2 mile across the water. One impatient resident couldn't wait for winter so he had his construction materials helicoptered over. Apparently money is not an issue. We've walked on the beach, waded in the warmest water yet and watched beautiful sunsets. This is our last stay before heading over to Prince Edward Island (PEI).
North of Port Hood are the towns of Inverness, Margaree Forks and Glenora, home of the Glenora Distillery. Not having ever been to a distillery, we took a tour, short but interesting. Single malt whiskey is made there and after the sample I don't think we will be sipping too much whiskey, maybe a mixed drink. As with all alcohol here, it is also pretty expensive. We enjoyed some local Scottish music at the pub, with lunch. We also visited the Gaelic college and attended a Ceilidh (Kaylee), basically a celtic jam session with the instructors and some students. Fun, foot tapping music. Today, we visited another Celtic interpretive center, learned more about the Scottish roots and music and were serenaded at lunch with fiddle and piano. A passing visitor joined in and someone got up to step dance.
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| Nice day for the beach. |
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| Huh? |
In the driving around the last few days we've come across some camera worth shots that I'll leave you with. Funny things in life are all around us.
We are quite taken with the small, very cute town on the west coast of Nova Scotia, called Port Hood. Our campground is on the beach front with views of an island across the bay. This small fishing/lobster town has neat, trim houses and gardens, most of which sit on hillsides with great views of the bay. Across on the island, we can see a grouping of houses and it looks idyllic. We learned the only way over there is by a hired boat and most of the homes are summer homes owned by Americans or people from Montreal. Most of the building materials were trucked over to the island in the winter when they can construct an ice road. I estimate that it would be between 1/4 and 1/2 mile across the water. One impatient resident couldn't wait for winter so he had his construction materials helicoptered over. Apparently money is not an issue. We've walked on the beach, waded in the warmest water yet and watched beautiful sunsets. This is our last stay before heading over to Prince Edward Island (PEI).
North of Port Hood are the towns of Inverness, Margaree Forks and Glenora, home of the Glenora Distillery. Not having ever been to a distillery, we took a tour, short but interesting. Single malt whiskey is made there and after the sample I don't think we will be sipping too much whiskey, maybe a mixed drink. As with all alcohol here, it is also pretty expensive. We enjoyed some local Scottish music at the pub, with lunch. We also visited the Gaelic college and attended a Ceilidh (Kaylee), basically a celtic jam session with the instructors and some students. Fun, foot tapping music. Today, we visited another Celtic interpretive center, learned more about the Scottish roots and music and were serenaded at lunch with fiddle and piano. A passing visitor joined in and someone got up to step dance.
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