Saturday, July 18 - Happy Birthday, Tyler!

Meat Cove was our next stop. It is the northern-most location you can drive to in Nova Scotia. And we drove to it – 8 kilometers on a narrow, steep, dirt road, with cliffs along the ocean side.

We arrived at the campground and secured site #15 which was on a cliff overlooking the beach. Freaked me out a bit., but Bill did his best to scare me even more. Surprisingly, I slept pretty well that night after a bit of seafood stew and mussels at the small restaurant at the top of the hill. The daughter of the man who owns this place worked at the restaurant and answered our many questions until we asked if any of her customers had gone over the edge. She avoided the question and days later we heard that one person went over the edge in the dark and died. Of course, we stayed up with our tripods and took a few long exposures lit only by a campfire of one of the tenters on the cliff.

This place is really remote. Like most places we have been there is no cell phone coverage at all, but they made a point to install great wifi. It started raining a bit as we started to turn in and I listened to the surf as I fell asleep.