It is now 9:00 a.m. and Joe hasn't made a peep. We had decided we might push the check-out time and have a sleep-in day, so it looks like that is working for him. Actually, I woke him up at 10:00 a.m., so we got a late start this morning (11:10), to finish our Cabot Trail drive. Today we did mountains. Way, way up, then way, way down. And we had some fog to begin the day.
And stopped at one viewing point above a pretty little coastal town.
Here, we saw some wildlife -- our first eagle of the trip.
It actually flew pretty low right over our RV, but I couldn't find it in the camera quick enough to snap a picture.
We have been seeing lobster traps all week, sometimes stacked pretty high. I finally got a picture of a few out by the road.
We came off the island and back across the Canso Causeway about 3:00. We had been looking for a lunch and fuel stop since about 1:00 but could never find a place to park at either, so Joe just kept driving. We fueled at Auld's Cove, just across the causeway, and had a late lunch here. Joe decided to check the oil in the RV too, since it had hard pulls today, so that stop took a little over an hour, but we had a nice lunch.
However, just as we got to the causeway, we spotted more wildlife -- a red fox! Things are looking up (but still no moose). And just before we stopped for the day, Joe also spotted 2 deer (a momma doe and her fawn) too, so this was our best wildlife day of the trip, I think.
We had watched a dark cloud for a while, and it finally started raining on us, and it rained until just before we stopped for the day at -- are you ready for this -- Seafoam, Nova Scotia. And the campground is Seafoam Campground. And it is right on the sea! It was after 6:00 before we quit driving for the day, and we had the full gambit of weather -- fog, clouds, rain, and finally sun -- just no snow.
As soon as we got checked in and set up, we put on our rubber shoes and walked down to the sea. The water was cold at first, but we quickly got used to it. I picked up a few more rocks, but we couldn't find any seaglass. Joe found a cairn on top of one of the big rocks, and decided to add to it.
We both walked the rocks, but he actually fell in, halfway.
It was great just getting to walk the beach, look at the views, and watch some kids on an air mattress (hope it dries by bedtime).
This is a lovely, well-kept campground, with tent sites right on the bank above the water. A nice play area and playground for the kids. And they sell ice cream at the office! We walked up to the office for ice cream cones (that was our dinner) and saw a beautiful sunset! What a nice end to the day.
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