Cape Breton adventures with my friend Chrissy

I spent the day exploring the coastal back roads of south eastern Cape Breton yesterday with my friend Chrissy.  We were good friends when we lived in Sault Ste. Marie and now we’re both living in Nova Scotia.

She had a day to kill while her girlfriend was at a conference, so I drove up to meet her in Port Hawkesbury, and then we went off exploring with her 2 dogs, a beagle and a retriever, in her car.

Here is Arichat in the distance.

We drove the car as far as possible on this beat up old road, then walked the rest of the way to the lighthouse.

I love the colours of the vegetation here in Nova Scotia and in Newfoundland.  This photo looks like it was painted!

The bench in front of the lighthouse is dedicated to the last lighthouse keepers who manned this light.

See the cross on the rock?  Is that the burial place for the last lighthouse keepers too?

We went to Point Michaud beach. It is 3km long on the Atlantic Ocean and is all sand.  Really nice place.  The waves were rolling in and there were some people surfing. I think this waves were already being kicked up by the hurricanes.

This is Battery Provincial Park in St. Peter’s. The sign says “Danger. Actively Eroding Cliff”.

There was a lighthouse here too, beside the gate house of the campground.

This is the canal and lock system in St. Peter’s that connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Bras d’Or lakes.

Here are the tug boats in Port Hawkesbury.