Baddeck, Cabot Trail, to Pictou

All our advice was that the Cabot Trail took pretty much all day, and all our advice was right. We got on the road about 9:30 and completed the loop about 4. We stopped at several lookouts and beaches, but not all of them. We didn't take any of the hikes. To do it properly you should do at least a couple of short hikes and maybe take in a whale watching tour. But, there certainly were some pretty spots.



One interesting observation was the lobster fishing. There were thousand of floats near the shore, each one marking a lobster trap. There were dozens of boats checking their traps. You can see a couple of boats in the left foreground and, if you look carefully, there are at least four more far in the background. This scene was repeated over and over again during the day. It is amazing that there are any lobsters left!





From the Trail, we drove another 2.5 hours back to the mainland and on to Pictou, the departure point for the ferry to PEI.

From what we heard about other places, the temperature today may have been around 15 degrees, but it was probably the sunniest day we have had so far. There was hardly a cloud in the sky until late afternoon. Good thing for a scenic tour. We met an Austrian man on our coal mine tour who had done the Cabot Trail the day before and was quite disappointed that it was foggy the whole day.