The weather in the morning was completely rotten, so much in fact we just about called off doing the Cabot Trail. However by the time we packed up our tent and got a hot shower everything had started to clear up, our luck with great day-time weather continued. We decided to spend the day driving the Cabot Trial, a 300km long highway which takes you around the Northwest corner of
Cape Breton Island. A lot of the highway is right on the coast and the views are absolutely incredible. This is another one of those areas which is difficult to capture in a photograph because the pictures simply do no justice. We enjoyed the drive and stopped off at Black Brook, a great beach in the park. Waves come crashing in, one after another, they are all consistently big and crash onto the beach providing great boogie boarding. Tons of tourists and locals alike all pile out in the water to ride up and down in the waves as if it were some kind of an amusement park. The beach was beautiful and we swam for a couple of hours before getting back into the car to drive to our campsite. Mileage wise we are basically back where we started this morning however we’ve covered over 300km of road and seen a lot of great things. Tomorrow we’re off to
Halifax and then down to
Yarmouth on the 7
th to catch the ferry to
Maine.
Meat Cove as seen from the private campground overlooking the cliff
Black Brook Beach, rollers like that come in constantly all day, lots of fun
Can you imagine having that as your backyard?
Nicola and I at a small cove on the way to Meat Cove
View from the Cabot Trail highway heading south on the east coast section
Meat Cove as seen from the private campground overlooking the cliff
Black Brook Beach, rollers like that come in constantly all day, lots of fun
Can you imagine having that as your backyard?
Nicola and I at a small cove on the way to Meat Cove
View from the Cabot Trail highway heading south on the east coast section