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Monday, August 08, 2011

Monday 8th August 2011…wet and windy!!

The heading describes the whole day but I am not complaining……..drove the coastal road into Sydney and some of the sights along the way…

Two brave souls!!!

Now this was an interesting town..one of those little places with just a main street that lasts about 3 blocks but every house front yard had some sort of decorations on the front lawn…

Too funny!!!

The next stop was

The tour underground hosted by an ex miner was very informative, interesting and made me feel lucky not to have been a working class man in this area years ago…it was a hard life!!!

If anybody makes any comment about my pants it will mean a one week instant ban from the blog…I had a reason for wearing them and not sharing why!!!

So it is now 7pm and I am in McD’s doing the blog and then leave here to the ferry terminal for a 10.30pm sailing to Newfoundland…14 hours and I am not allowed to go to Ramona so will find a quiet area and try to sleep….will post again when I can…..order me some sunshine please!!!

Sunday, August 07, 2011

Sunday 7th August 2011…..my morning show!!!

So not only did I have a great sleep and woke up to sun but whilst having my poached eggs for breakfast out the side window I spot this little guy!!!

It was like a circus performance he took his time and jumped left onto the next rock and so on down the line….I went outside and he was not bothered by me I hope you enjoy these photos as much as I did taking them!!!

What a wonderful way to start a morning!!

I drove the few miles to the parking lot for

You will have to Google this and read the history very interesting the story of the sieges and the life way back when!!!

I paid my 15 dollars admission and yes that was with my Seniors Discount…I love that!!!!

All very well organized they bus you to the site and I was just in time for a 75 minute guided tour which I am glad that I took because all the history was given to you and you didn’t go inside any building so after the tour then you go off on your own where ever you wanted……

Here are some photos of the Fortress and it is not a Fort I know the difference now do you??

The lighthouse in the distance is where I stayed last night.

My lunch time view!!

An artist’s impression of what the Fortress and harbour would have looked like in it’s heyday!!

I spent about 4 hours here and really enjoyed it all.

Came back into town and bought a ticket for a concert tonight in the playhouse..then drove out to a look out where I spent the rest of the afternoon reading, walking and yes at last the Atlantic Ocean!!!!

Got showered and and some Tim Horton’s mushroom soup and went back into town for the concert.

These were two very talented musicians but sorry to say had no stage personality and the crowd was small so the atmosphere was not great but I enjoyed the music.

I have decided to spend the night here in the parking lot at the library.

Tomorrow I shall do a small coastal tour before heading to Sydney where at 10.30pm I take the ferry to Newfoundland again will post when I can…blessings Les

Saturday 6th August 2011….welcome to Nova Scotia!!!!

I know I am a day late but no Internet last night it is now 4pm Sunday afternoon and I am outside the library…so will post this now then come back here tonight and post about today’s adventure you DO NOT want to miss my morning show this morning!!!!

I said my goodbyes and thanks to Karyn last night and was on the road by 8am I intended to catch the 9.30am ferry over to Pictou, Nova Scotia…I was cutting it tight but arrived at the ferry terminal at 9.15am paid my 92 dollars and almost boarded the ship right away!!

It was a 75 minute crossing that was sunny and warm..

As soon off the ship here I am my very first time in

Had to laugh at all the McDonald’s signs

After a short drive I was on the island of

Some scenes along the way…this lady is popular in Mexico!!!!

I stopped in at a Visitors service centre and the staff were so great took lots of books and went out to Ramona and decided I would have my dinner mid afternoon and make some decisions.

Thanks Aunt Doll for a lovely turkey dinner I told you I would wait till I got to NS before I ate the dinner you so kindly froze for me…it was really good.

The thing I had to decide was my route do I tour NS first then go up to Newfoundland or do the reverse…I took into consideration the time of year and the forecasts and decided I would take the ferry over to NF first so I called the ferry company and made a reservation for this Monday at 10.45pm it is a 14 hour ferry ride!!!! The cost was 415 dollars which I think is a great rate when I took a similar ferry last year from the Island to Prince Rupert the cost was over 800 dollars.

So now I decided that I had to choose my next destination so I chose to come to visit the historic fort at Fort Louisbourg which is only about 45 minutes from Sydney where the ferry leaves from.

Very beautiful scenery on the peninsular