We spent most of the next three days, October 4-6, driving and hiking on Cape Breton Island. It really is an island, separated from the mainland by a narrow channel and joined by a low bridge. We spent the night of the 4th in an actual campground, at Cape Breton Island Highlands National Park.
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| Vicki by a fallen giant burl at the campground |
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| Automated weather station at the campgound |
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| Driving the NP highway which passes through much of the island |
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| Nice views |
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Road work--two construction workers, belayed, spraying water on a cliff high
over the repaved highway |
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| Views from our hike on the Skyline Trail |
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| Apart from the ferns, not much sign of autumn here |
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| Dangerous country |
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| North side of island |
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| One of our better wild camping sites, near Neil's Cove on the Atlantic side |
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| But for the fog horn on this buoy, half a mile off shore... |
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Everywhere we drove, there were lobster traps piled in front yards, some for sale,
and many fishing boats |
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| On the NP's Cove Loop |
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| Note lobster traps and boats; turns out lobster season was over July 31st |
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| Typical |
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Another quirk of CBI...nearly every house had a box like this out front, some
nicely painted...turns out they were for trash pick-up |
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| At the glass-blowers federation coop |
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Very Scottish part of the island; saidto have m ore fiddlers per
capita than anywhere else |
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| Autumn beginning to show |
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