Anyway, I am making this entry from over looking the Bay of St. Lawrence at Pleasant Bay Cape Breton, the Maritime Whale Watching Capital! We certainly hope so, we have already booked our whale watching adventure for tomorrow morning at 9:30am. We can actually see the boat from the deck of our motel room.
We left Sydney this morning around 9:30 and headed to Glace Bay, where the first trans-Atlantic telecommunication took place. What a let down for sites! Other than knowing the history of the location we stopped at there was not much to see. Let me correct that... there was a whole lot of water! It over looks the ocean but the Parks Canada "museum" does not have much of the remains of the buildings or towers that were there.
After leaving Glace Bay, we drove back around Sydney toward North Sydney and then on to Cape Breton. I think that I could leave Steve here and I would not hear from him again! The scenery is breath-taking. The mountains and the oceans are amazing! The roads twisted and turned, up and down through the mountains of the Cape. I think we must have stopped every 1/2 km because it took us hours to get around the top and to Pleasant Bay. The trip from Sydney, return is approximately 8 hours. It took us close to six hours with all the "look-off" stops and the off "the beaten track" trails to get less than half way around! Lorraine would have had her eyes closed for much of the trip, because the roads were often right along the edge of the cliffs.
The road wound up and down the mountains, going up and down 250m in height. SPECTACULAR! There were some little villages but nothing like along the coast that we saw before. There were not really any fishing villages. I think that it was because of the mountainous terrain.
We made a quick stop at Treasurer and Tartans where the very nice shop-keeper directed us to a very nice motel in Pleasant Bay. We bought a few trinkets and were on our way again.
Once we were on top of one of the last mountains, we came across cars and people all over the road. Why you ask? What do you think this is Canada after all.... it was a moose not more than 15 feet off the side of the road, having dinner. She (as we had it confirmed by a hunter) was just leisurely having dinner without taking any notice of the 20-30 people clicking away with their cameras. We were there about 15 minutes and she did not make any motions to cross the road but kept on eating.
We easily found the motel in Pleasant Bay. Quite nice, with a balcony that over looks the ocean/bay. We then went up the road for a bit to eat. There special was a lobster and crab combo. Guess what we had? and it was delicious. I have also acquired a taste for Nova Scotia wine, in particular, Jost. Very nice with the dinner. Of, did I mention that the restaurant also over looked the beautiful water. It was a great day!
Upon return to the motel and while walking along the beach we came upon a fiddle player which was our evenings entertainment.
We head off at 9:30 tomorrow morning for a whale adventure. Whale sightings are guaranteed but we have heard that before.
Good night from Cape Breton.
This picture is taken from our motel room at Pleasant Bay.
From the road, S & S
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