Sunday, September 15, 2024

Sept. 5th, 2024, Day 9 East Coast - Ingonish-Beach to Graves Island

Today we had nice weather again. We packed up our tent at Ingonish-Beach Campground and left after making breakfast. We stopped on a lookout when coming down on the other side of Cape Smokey. Again we looked with binoculars for whales, but without luck. But we did see a bald eagle flying about 50m above us. Very nice. The view from this street lookout was equal to the view from the Skyline trail.

Our next stop was the Bell-Museum in Baddeck. We spent about 1 hour there. The museum is totally worthwhile. Interestingly I did not properly remember the building there. We visited the same museum 30 years ago and the museum site back then was the same as is now. My memory leaks a bit. I did enjoy the same black and white video clips with the hydro-foil boat being tested (and I watched the same clips 30 years ago and still remembered and liked them back then).

The route then continued along the Bras d'Or Lake and is scenic. But in the much better condition compared to 30 years ago. We stopped for a late lunch at the Irving Big Truck Stop and the Canso Causeway. Our meals there we good and affordable. I had again Fish and Chips. The others were also happy with their meals.

Afterwards it was a long and uneventful drive to Halifax. The roads from the Canso Causeway to Truro is relatively new. The landscape it runs through is the quintessential uneventful TCH territory. From Truro to Halifax the highway is in less good condition but has lots of traffic. Again we made it at about 5 or 6pm to the Halifax Costco. We stocked up on various items there for the next days. Then we continued to Graves Island.

Graves Island Provincial Park is a an Island with a very nice campground. We ended up with a good site there, put up our tent, made and had dinner. Some of use had a shower there in the evening, some of us had a shower the next morning.

Daniella and I had an evening walk around one quarter of the Island. The campground is relatively open and we had again a beautiful starry night. That was it for the day.

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