Cape Breton Island and Newfoundland

Left the Halifax area and headed to Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia.  Found a nice campground that was centrally located for all our exploring.   The first thing we did was follow the Cabot Trail around the northern part of the island.  Such beautiful scenery.  Here are just a few pictures from that drive.

Made so many stops along the way to take pictures that I can't begin to label them all.  It was an absolutely gorgeous day.  

Stopped along the rugged coast and took picture after picture.

As you can tell the road was far from straight

After exploring Cape Breton, we decided to take a ferry ride.....a 6 hour ride that is, to NEWFOUNDLAND.  Can't say we don't believe in exploring.  The ferry was to leave at 11;45 a.m. and we had to be there two hours before that.  Of course we got there at about 8:30 a.m.   Didn't want to be late.  It was rainy, foggy and generally not a good day.  We hoped the ferry ride wouldn't be too rough.  Margaret doesn't have sea legs, but she did OK.

Waiting to board ferry

Nice accommodations

Like a cruise ship

Arriving in Port-Aux-Basques, Newfoundland

Rather dreary

Checked into our hotel, The St. Christopher, got dinner and crashed for the evening.  The next day would be for exploring what we could in the amount of time we had.  (We certainly plan on going back and spending a lot more time in Newfoundland).

Headed out early the next morning and went straight to a lighthouse....yes, another lighthouse.   This one was so pretty.  Made from granite, it is the only granite lighthouse still in existence along the Atlantic coastline.  It was called Rose Blanche. (oh by the way, I took so many pictures here it was hard to decide which ones to put on the blog)

Rose Blanche Lighthouse, Newfoundland

The scenery around the lighthouse was quite impressive also. We stopped by a waterfall along the way.  Also explored the fishing village where the lighthouse is located.   So quaint and peaceful.

After going to the lighthouse, we headed north towards Stephenville and Corner Brook.  They would be about as far as we could get in our limited time frame.  Beautiful drive, but starting to cloud up.

At the end of the day we headed back to our hotel and got ready for our return ferry ride.  It was another rainy, foggy trip.  Had a wonderful time in Newfoundland and will most definitely return.  Enjoy the blog...more later.