Halifax-Cape Breton-PEI
Well we started the day fairly early. Packed up the car and left Halifax.
We did make one important stop along the way.... Cole Harbour, yes home town to the one and only Sid the Kid... However the town is not quite as impressive as his hockey skills...
The rest of the day consisted mostly of drivig to Cape Breton. A fairly enjoyable ride complete with stops at tiny and hilarious small town nova scotian grocery stores. Grease tunes pumped out of the stereo and we even drove past the scariest scarecrow store ever. I'm not really sure if it was a store or just the result of someones boredom but a good time was had by all.
We arrived in Cheticamp, right inthe middle of Acadia town and pulled into Cape Breton Highland National Park to set up camp.... We manger tonset up the tent even missing two poles!
I don't really know how to describe our hike.... I don't even think the pictures will accuratly show what it was like, we drove up a windy road up a mountain until we reached the Skyline Trail. You walk throw the forest for a while( where we saw a bull moose complete with antlers) and then it just sort of opens up.... At the top of the moutain, Atlantic ocean several meters below. Needless to say it was gorgeous. I think the only way to describe it is to say that it looked like a computer desktop background image. It was nuts. And windy... Amazing.
We headed back down and ended up driving down the coast around sunset and played on the rocks for a while. I think we said " is That even real" several times that afternoon. The pictures will not even do it justice.
We got back the campsite andmade our sweet dinner. It's amazing how I have no concept of time while camping. I always think it's way later than it is. I wid have made a terrible explorer back in the day.
We got up somewhat bright and early the next dya and went for another hike, quickly realizing that this hill were climbing down will be be the hill we'll be climbing UP soon enough. We turned back around fairly quickly. We were worried aboutbeing cold but it ls safe to say being cold was the last of our worry onthat uphill hike.
We got on the road and started to head south for the ferry to PEI fro. Caribou. We even saw two bald eagles, for realsies! It was pretty cool, a bull moose and two bald eagles in one trip... Not too shabby! We stopped I at the Red Shoe in Mabou, home of the Rankin Family. We stayedfor a nice fish and chips dinner and some music until we had leave to meet the ferry. The ferry ride was great, it left around 8 so we had a nice sunsetcruise and a great intro to pei :)
A full day in Charlottetown tomorrow!
Have a great day!
Kate
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