Today we started our tour of Cape Breton Island. We followed the Cabot Trail from the Canso Causeway, which links Cape Breton Island to the rest of Nova Scotia.
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Photos are here.
As we drove the beginning of the Cabot Trail, we enjoyed the road signs which were in English and Gaelic. In the rest of Canada, the road signs are in English and French, at least in the parts where we had traveled. When the signs use Gaelic, larger signs are needed to contain all the letters in the Gaelic words. They have an amazing number of consonants!
We stopped at the Glenora Distillery, North America's only single malt whiskey producer, which sits in a picturesque valley along the Cabot Trail. We considered taking the distillery tour, but it was a bit too pricey and didn't even include free samples.
Just up the road from the distillery, we stopped to take some pictures of the coastal towns of Margaree Harbour and Belle Cote. The road hugs the coast and provides magnificent views of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. This is, really, a gorgeous drive. Each overlook, and there are many, is worth a stop.
We stopped for lunch at the Acadian Restaurant in Cheticamp. Nancy had the chicken fricot and I had the meat pie. The fricot was tasty, but much different than our first fricot at Cap-Pele. It did confirm, however, that we are going to try to make our own fricot when we get home. The meat pie was good, too, with seasonings that are different than we find in the midwest.
Back on the road, we stopped at a nature walk through a slope fen. We would call it a bog, but it is on a slight slope and it is a fen, so "slope fen" it is. This gave me a chance to take a few flower pictures, and none too soon as "flower-picture-withdrawal" was starting to set in and that isn't pretty.
Our campsite for the night was a very small campground at MacIntosh Brook in the Cape Breton Highlands National Park.
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