We awoke to an overcast morning, and thought, "oh no, another rainy day". We left early, 7am, to try to make it around Cape Breton Highlands National Park before the end of the day. This drive is the famed Cabot Trail. A few miles down the road, we stopped at the Clucking Hen Cafe and Bakery for breakfast. We're glad we did; Donna had very good French Toast, and Steve had the best over-easy fried eggs in years. He even hugged the cook.
Sun broke through shortly thereafter, making the scenery much better. During the first part of the trip, we experienced grades of 13% for about 2km, both up and down. It's a good thing we weren't pulling Doodle. Look offs (as they say on the signs here) were beautiful; pictures certainly can't reproduce the effect.
The drive didn't take nearly as long as anticipated, maybe our stops were fewer than average. Towards the end of the Trail, we were lucky enough to see our first Moose of the trip. And what a Moose he was. Very large antlers with velvet.
Some of the more picturesque country side was seen just outside of Margaree Harbour. Many colorful and uniquely shaped houses. We stopped for lunch in the parking lot of one of the many churches along the way. Very serene. We then invested $7 at a car wash (Junior hasn't had a bath since we left home) in the area; within two hours it started to rain. As we input this blog this evening, it is raining still!
Steve decided to push on to a spot closer to the PEI ferry, and we ended up in Pictou in a most interesting campground - Harbour Light Campground. We tried to make a reservation with a phone call, but the girl who answered the phone said, "I'll call you back after I find out if something is available." She did call back with a positive confirmation. Upon arrival, the same girl had to wait until "he returns" to find out what site we'd have. Once "he" told her the appropriate site, she led us there in her car. It turns out this is a huge RV park with many seasonal occupants, and people are, seemingly, randomly place in the park. There appears to be no defined rows of sites - we're not sure we can find our way out in the morning! Further, we don't know what the cost of the site is - they wouldn't take money at check-in and told us to pay when we got around to it. We hope they're open in the morning when we leave; we don't want the RCMP after us. It is times like this we think back to that wonderful state park in Ohio and how great it really was.
Distance: 313 miles (500 km)
Time: 7.3 hours
KPG: 36
Fuel: none
Camping: Yet to be determined
PS - we still don't have a connection good enough to upload the pictures. Hopefully tomorrow's park will have
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