Cabot Trail

From the time of preparing for our trip, Jeff has been talking about going around the Cabot Trail, which is a road that winds around most of the northern tip of Cape Breton.  This has been item #1 on the agenda of “Things to do” on our trip.  He had given us 2-day window so if we were having bad weather one day, we could still see it on the next day.  This is where we kinda hit a roadblock – because of this little guy – 

Hurricane Igor

As we were looking at the forecast 5 days ago, we were thrilled with the outlook.  Sunny, low 20’s (Celsius), calm, we thought we were geniuses with such great planning.  And then the hurricane decided to come up this way.  In the end we decided we were still geniuses -- geniuses in finding our way to the hurricanes.  Geniuses in bringing the colder than normal temperature to Nova Scotia.  And especially, geniuses at navigating through the streets of Nova Scotia.  BUT, we did not let these small factors dampen our sense of adventure and stop our curiosity, NOPE, we still did everything we had planned even through the rain and intense wind.

The ferry that took us across the bay in the ocean.

This lake was so still it looked like a mirror.  

We sat on these rocks for 45 minutes just watching the waves crash up against them.

This sight is EVERYWHERE!!!  A cute little church, usually white, surrounded by a cemetery.  I just had to get a picture of it.

Jeff drove, a lot!

We all enjoyed a yummy dinner of lobster.

They call these mountains, but we who know what REAL mountains are, we called these hills.  Whatever they are called, they were absolutely beautiful.  The one thing that is for sure about Nova Scotia is that EVERYTHING is GREEN!!!  The "mountains" are covered with trees as thick as you could imagine.  We were kind of hoping that we could see the autumn leaves along this drive, as you could imagine what it would look like, or maybe not, but we did get a small taste of the color as a tree here and there had started to turn into the brilliant fall colors.

The coast had parts that were extremely rugged like this.

We were so excited when we saw a moose on the side of the road.  They don't look like this in Utah.  I don't think this moose particularly liked us snapping photos of him.  He kept looking at us a little suspiciously.

The scarecrow, whatever it was, that Jeff said has been there for a very long time because he remembers it from way back when.  We just needed a little stretch and this was a nice excuse.

And then we saw this --

And this--

It was very cool.  We sat there for about 20 minutes or so just snapping picture after picture of it.  The clouds are compliment of Igor, so I guess he did produce something very incredibly gorgeous that we did appreciate.

We did have a very nice time and on top of that, we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves along the way.  We spent 10 1/2 hours of driving around the Cabot Trail, and we were very happy to see our beds that evening.