Blogs from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada, North America

While I was enjoying my last leisurely month in Australia, I was making plans, via email, with some friends in Canada for a road trip. It was exciting to think of some of my best life friends, a car, the colours of autumn, and a place called Cape Breton. Cape Breton is a place that I've heard about it's beauty but have never been. So my good friends Steph and Nick ( famous from my Roadtrips and Reunions blog)had some time off work, and I have more then plenty of time. So Saturday I found myself on the highway cruising southbound, destination Halifax. That night we had a few drinks and talked about our upcoming road trip that was to start in the morning. The weather has been unusually warm this time of year. In fact ... read more

Woke up and had the best "full" breakfast. The french waitress was very nice and set us up with bags of ice for our cooler. With this and some cold cuts from the "Co-op" we set off in search of moose in Cape Breton National Park. We stopped at numerous lookoffs and saw some amazing ocean views. We stopped and walked around a bog where we saw "pitcher plants" and orchids beside the bogs. We detoured two times down dirt roads to see waterfalls. At the second waterfall, we watched and waited for a local girl to take the steep jump high off the rocks into the water. She chickened out in the end but soon after town boys arrived and they had fun climbing and jumping into the pool of water at the base of ... read more

We stayed at a great resort, it's too bad they don't give us time to use all the amenities. The Cabot trail is rugged and wild. The Reconstructed Fortress of Louisburg with actors playing roles is amazing in it's reality. We had a whale watching trip on really rough water. Five people puking on a small boat is not pretty. Saw some Northern pilot whales up close and personal.... read more

North Sydney, Nova Scotia, 18juillet Après quelques jours dans les Hautes Terres du Cap Breton, je suis à quelques minutes de l'embarquement vers 'The Rock'. Pas besoin de vous dire que je suis é-ner-vé et que j'ai très très hâte d'aborder l'île mystérieuse. Mais les derniers jours, sous un soleil radieux et des températures plutôt méditérranéennes, m'ont permis de redécouvrir ce bout du monde tout en falaises, en océan bleuté et en plages désertes. Revoir les fous de bassan plonger dans la grande bleue m'a encore une fois ravi et la mer est encore une fois irrésistible. Je n'ai d'ailleurs pu résister à quelques trempettes et, étonnamment, l'eau n'est pas si glaciale autour du Cap-Breton. Mais pour de l'eau chaude, l'immense lac Bras d'Or, une petite mer intérieure au coeur de l'île du Cap-Breton, offre eau ... read more

Nachdem der Schneesturm am Samstag vorueber war bin ich nach Port aux Basques (is franzoesich, weiss selber nich genau wie man das ausspricht!) getrampt. Um mir die 5 Std freie Zeit bis zum Ablegen der Faehre um Mitternacht zu vertreiben bin ich nen bisschen rumgelaufen, bin mit nem Trucker ins Gespraech gekommen, der mich dann erstmal aufn Bier eingeladen hat (inner BAr hab ich dann von der Thekenfrau auch noch 2 Bier spendiert bekommen) und mir angeboten hat mich in seinem Truck mit auf die Faehre zu schmuggeln und mich am Ziel weiter mitzunehmen. Da fiel die Entscheidung nich schwer und so hab ich die 30 $ faehrueberfahrt gespart und wurde gleich zum Abzweig gebracht der zu der Familie fuehrte, bei der ich aufm Hinweg einige Extrasachen gelassen hatte. Der Weg war leider wenig befahren und ... read more