The best thing to do when visiting a new place is fly fishing. There aren't any fish in the Margaree river (or I'm bad at fishing) but it was still very pretty. Our Airbnb for 3 nights was on the Cabot Trail but was 5km down a bumpy two-track road. It was nice and quiet back there and the star-viewing was amazing but the 10min drive just to get to the main road got annoying.
The Cabot Trail is a loop road through a national park that takes around 5 hours to drive. It was rainy by the end so we cancelled a couple stops but we did do the Skyline trail which was spectacular.
There were a bunch of signs at the end of the trail warning about dangerous winds coming from the ocean due to the shape of the mountain. It can get pretty dangerous, but when we were there we just had to take our time. We would take five steps and then crouch while a huge gust of wind swept up the mountainside and then take a few more steps once it passed. 
The roads were super fun in our '07 Honda Element but I wished I had a sports car. Next time we camp in a Lotus Elise!
Unlike Scotland there isn't a whisky distillery on every corner but there is one that makes whisky in the Scotch style (malted barley with peat brought in from Saskatchewan). It was all really tasty so we thought we'd pop in to the gift shop to buy a bottle. They had a cool thing where you fill your own bottles straight from a cask...for $400. We got a nice picture instead.
It was then that I found out about the 'Chowder Trail' which seemed like it would make my boots soggy but also made me hungry. I looked up a bunch of the best seafood chowder places and then our real vacation began.
We started the chowder journey at the Celtic Music Center. 10/10 chowder and good live music with which to enjoy chowder. It was chowder this world (does that work as a pun?)! The word chowder quickly lost its meaning after I said it a hundred times so we moved on to Annapolis Royal on the bay of Fundy.
Chowder.
It kept raining a bunch but I still caught a bunch of striper from shore. They're crazy aggressive fish that have terrible aim so I had fun watching them chase my topwater lures. There was also a friendly seal that kept popping up near where I was fishing. Check out this amazing nature photography:
Much of Nova Scotia seems a bit run down, it sounds like a lot of businesses used to thrive but have been struggling for a while. Though Nova Scotia isn't really much like Scotland it's still pretty and has a lot of open spaces.
At this point in our trip we're pretty sick of driving around and setting up our tent, so we're looking forward to a week of chilling by a lake at our next Airbnb.
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