We tentatively planned a loop trip around the huge lake here: Bras D'Or. It is considered an inland sea and is part fresh and part salt water. There are lots of roads that go around the different arms of the lake, some of which are marked "scenic". But they didn't give an indication of which roads were smooth enough to be comfortable! Some of them were awful, I guess due to the cold winters. The road markings are somewhat lacking, and we missed one turn and got on a dirt road, which was actually smoother than the pavement we had been on! But it came to an end at a point in the lake so we had to turn around.
We wound our way around to just south of Sidney and decided not to go through the city, but to start back since I needed to get some laundry done. Most of the signs that give the names of towns or bays are in both English and Gaelic. After all, this is "Nova Scotia"..."New Scotland". The Gaelic names are really long! The woman in the Bell Museum told us that their alphabet has only 18 letters, so they use combinations of letters to form a sound.
We stopped at a local market and bought some wonderful cookies, some traditional oat cakes, and a frozen Acadian pie (meat and vegetables...I think!) We were going to bake the pie for dinner, but realized we can't run both the A/C and the convection oven at the same time on the 30 AMP circuit here, so that will have to wait. We had a good dinner at the Red Barn Restaurant just down the street from the campground. I was apprehensive since the reviews were mixed, but we enjoyed the meal.
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| View from the dirt road we got on |
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| And, across a bridge with wooden planks |
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| One of the towns we went through |
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| English & Gaelic |
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| Try and pronounce that! |
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| We think these fence-type things hold seafood traps |
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| Not in 82-degree weather! |
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