Toward the Cabot Trail

We covered a LOT of miles on Monday and found a few quirky places and some gorgeous places and a lot of the same green landscape - plus one gigantic lake.  We traveled mostly inland, thinking we would avoid fog - not a great choice as the landscape appears repetitive (lots of fir and pine trees...) and the fog stayed in New Brunswick.  We hoped to find a seafood lunch at this first stop but missed their being open by a day!

So we pressed on until we realized we were not on much of a commercial route.  We found a lovely shaded spot and raided Hilda’s fridge for a picnic lunch.

 We parked Hilda at a campground in mid-afternoon and continued our search for Kodak Moments.  We should have taken a photo of the ferry we took to Little Narrows across St Patrick’s Channel but the entire operation was less than two minutes!  Why no bridge? Who knows - the ferry runs 24 hours a day!  I think we drove for about 90 minutes and saw occasional glimpses of the lake:  Bras d’Or Lake.  Removing trees for motorists to view the lake does not seem important.  But there is plenty of lake to see eventually!

We eventually found our way to Baddeck and dinner of crab cakes and Digby scallops.  YUM!  I then took my favorite photo so far:

Tomorrow we drive the Cabot Trail.