Day 6 - Steve, where are we now?

We left Halifax at 8am this morning in the sunshine and just arrived (10pm) in Sydney. What a long day! It was a good thing that the scenery/drive was so nice. Steve, did I really say that I would do this? I haven't even slept while you were driving yet!! If you knwo me then you know that I don't like to drive for long periods of time and I usually fall asleep before we get to the highway, BUT I am very proud of myself that I have made it this far.

After leaving Halifax we drove to Fisherman's Cove. A very nice little fishing village ('ya I know that you knew that it was a fishing village by the name:)) Unfortunately, because we were on the road so early nothing was open, but we had a look around anyway.

Steve and I talked about taking roads off the beaten path... well today we did. We were up and down every little lane and side road we found (hence the 12 hours to get to Sydney!) After Fisherman's Cover, we saw Cow Bay, Chezzetcook, Jeddore, Ship Harbour, Sheet Harbour, Quoddy, Moosehead, Liscomb and every little village in between.

We stopped for a visit at the Port Bickerton Lighthouse and had a tour of the light-keepers house and scenic views of the Atlantic Ocean.

After leaving the lighthouse, we continued east missing the ferry at Isaacs Harbour by 4 minutes and then waiting for its next trip for 1/2 hour. By the way have we mentioned that much of our driving we had not had much of a selection of radio stations, so we have been using my ipod. We are on song 334. After the ferry we continued each towards Guysborough. We had a quick stop at a couple of cemeteries to see if we could find Alex or Ada but no luck. We will get back to this search after CB.

We finally made it to Cape Breton just after 6:30pm. Again we thought we would try a little some villages and headed to Arichat. It was a little disappointing but we did manage to take a few good pictures.

So we are in Sydney tonight. Not sure what tomorrow brings but we know that the weather will be good through the weekend.

So long for now,

From the road, S & S