Graves Island Provincial Park | 2017 | Nova Scotia | Canada
In this vlog we are spending the day at Graves Island Provincial Park in Nova Scotia, Canada. This park is located about an hour outside of Halifax on the South Shore of Nova Scotia.
Here we are camping and hiking. We are exploring the campground section of the park as well to give you an idea of what's around!
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Graves Island Provincial Park Nova Scotia
This is one in my series of Nova Scotia Provincial parks. We ended up camping here over the Thanksgiving weekend (Canadian one in October). This is one of many nice camping parks in the area.
They have great trails that are groomed for hiking and biking. If you are looking for a good place to camp while on the south shore of Nova Scotia check this place out.
While in the area there are many places to check out like Oak Island, Chester, Liverpool, Gold River.
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Graves Island Provincial Park - Hiking in Nova Scotia
Quick video on the new walking trail that was built in 2011 at Graves Island Provincial Park.
I've done some research on the island, and sharing the text I've used to create an earth cache.
A drumlin (Irish droimnín, a little hill ridge) is an elongated whale-shaped hill formed by glacial action. Drumlins were formed with their long axes parallel to the direction in which the ice was moving.
Nova Scotia's drumlin fields provide markedly dissimilar landscapes, depending primarily on their suitability for early farming and settlement. Only the drumlins found in Lunenburg and Kejimkujik were extensively exploited for their well-drained loam soils. Here farms still dot the landscape (even though there has been much land abandonment) and provide variety and interest. The other drumlin have poorer soils and historically have supported very little farming.[3]
Those in southwestern Nova Scotia indicate a nearly southerly ice movement becoming southeasterly in eastern Lunenburg and western Halifax counties. Drumlins around Halifax have about the same size and orientation as those in central Lunenburg County. However, from Sheet Harbour east to beyond the Guysborough County border, the drumlins again have a north-south orientation, as if they were formed by ice that moved directly down from the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The few around Canso are oriented more to the southeast. [4]
In general, the ice appears to have moved directly across central and western mainland Nova Scotia from New Brunswick, whereas in eastern Nova Scotia the ice moved southward from Pictou and Antigonish counties and spread out to the east into Chedabucto Bay.[4]
Drumlins do not normally form from granitic material. Those drumlins frequently have a rock core. Occasional granitic drumlins are found in non-granite areas such as on Graves Island, but this is unusual. These drumlins contain large granite boulders, are often well- or excessively well-drained, and have soils with characteristics similar to Gibraltar soils.[4][7]
Graves Island was first settled by farmers and you can still see some signs of them today.[4] Overlooking scenic Mahone Bay, the island has a lot of history. Ownership of the land and residents of the island have been primarily associated with two families over the years: the Graves and the Zincks who first settled in Lunenburg County from Germany in 1753. [5] Even today, remnants remain from the families that once called Graves Island home, including stone foundations, old lanes, hand-dug wells, apple trees, tiger lilies, and rose bushes.
The 4 trails at Graves Island are well suited for family groups as they are all quite short. They take hikers around the island to see the many other drumlins and islands in the water. [6] For an easy hike, stay along the coastline which is flat.
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Hammock Camping at Graves Island Provincial Park
Last setup of the season at graves island site #69. Hammock camping at graves island provincial park in nova scotia. Using a easglesnest single with a hennessey hex tarp. #avoidingchores
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Gusty SSW winds as I make my way along the coast at east Chester from Graves Island to Zinck's Cove.
Mount Uniacke Estate - Hiking in Nova Scotia
In this video, I will be hiking the easy trails within the Mount Uniacke Estate Museum grounds. I'm also hunting for a historical item from the past.
By hiking along the old post trail, you might find one of the few remaining items from the old stage coach days, where the mile marker 27 is etched into a stone.
There are 7 trails to explore, just by doing the easy ones as in the video, you will need to budget around 2 hours and expect the walk at least 6km.
We hiked along the following trails: Lake Martha Loop, Post Road, Drumlin Field & Hothouse Hill. There are some back country loop, but we did explore them today.
The grounds are open year-around, but expect regular seasonal hours to access the museum itself.
Some excerpts from the museum website:
Built as a summer home for Richard John Uniacke, a Nova Scotian Attorney-General, the estate was prominently located along the stage coach route from Halifax to Windsor, a testimony to Uniacke's wealth and personal achievement.
The family summered in the area as early as the 1790s, probably staying in a farmhouse on the original land grant. Construction of the new house and out-buildings began in 1813 and was completed three years later. Although he maintained a house in Halifax, Uniacke would spend most of his time living in semi-retirement at the estate until his death in 1830.
Nostalgic for his native Ireland, he modeled his property after the Irish country estates, or working farms, he had known as a child. His estate included a large family home, a number of barns, a coach house, guest house, wash house, baths, privy, hot house, caretaker's house and an ice house.
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Nova Scotia's Lost Highways: The Early Roads that Shaped the Province by Joan Dawson
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Swissair 111 Memorial, Whalesback Nova Scotia Canada
this is the memorial site for the men, women, and children lost in the Swissair 111 disaster on the 2nd of September 1998, off the coast at Whalesback Nova Scotia Canada
Two memorials to those who died on the crash have been established by the Government of Canada. One is to the east of the crash site at The Whalesback, a promontory one kilometre (0.6 mile) north of Peggys Cove. The second memorial is a more private but much larger commemoration located west of the crash site near Bayswater Beach Provincial Park on the Aspotogan Peninsula in Bayswater. Here, the unidentified remains of the victims are interred. A fund was established to fund maintenance of the memorials and the government passed an act to recognize them.
Hiking Trails of Nova Scotia - Chester Connector
Let's admit it, rail trails can sometimes be rather boring. After all, they were designed for trains, so they tend to be very flat and often run in long, straight lines. However, because they need to be so level, whenever they cross a river, they need a bridge, and if the river gorge is deep, the bridge will be very high. That is what happens with the Gold River Bridge on the Chester Connector Trail.
A description of how to reach the Gold River Bridge will be found in Hiking Trails of Nova Scotia, 9th edition.
Photo Visit To Chester,NS
Chester (2001 pop.: 1,591) is an unincorporated Canadian village located in Nova Scotia's Chester Municipal District in the southeastern part of Lunenburg County.
Chester was officially founded in 1759 as the Shoreham grant, although French fishermen had already built a few houses on the site. The first permanent European-descended settlers were a group from Massachusetts who came to the area in 1761.
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Big Tancook Island | Ferry | Ford Model T | Chevy Deluxe | Nova Scotia | Canada
In this video we are exploring Big Tancook island. Big Tancook island is located on the South Shore of Nova Scotia in Canada. You have to take a 1 hour ferry ride from the town of Chester in order to get here. Many of the homes (about 125) are seasonal, but a select few, including my parents, have chosen to make this their home.
Go with me as we drive around the island in a Ford Model T and a Chevy Deluxe. Here you can see the ocean and what life on the island looks like!
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