Days 35 - 38 Lots to see and do on Cape Breton Island

July 16th to July 19th, 2013

I must admit that we are struggling to remember what we did on these days.  It is amazing when you do a long vacation like this, and everyday is not filled with action packed fun, that you can actually forget where the days went, and how you spent them.  This is really scary because being of "senior" status, we may not have too many days left!  They just slip away unnoticed.

I do, however, remember playing for the first time (and Norm his second) on the beautiful golf course Le Portage here in Cheticamp ( I tend to remember where we spend $100 ). It was a hot and sunny day with swift cooling breezes, the course was in perfect condition, and the views of the surrounding mountains, albeit hazy, were very nice.

Thursday evening we went into the town of Cheticamp and saw a musical play performed completely by a very talented group of young people, ages ranging from an adorable 6 or 7, to mostly high school age. The play was mostly in French, but it didn't matter.  They sang, danced, and several of the performers played multiple instruments.  It was two hours of non-stop fun.!   We think it must have been a comedy,because the audience was laughing a lot.

Very talented kids in this french musical

                                                   










                                                                        Watch this               video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zj149BSucko  if you would like to see the talent from this very small community. I chose to put a link to youtube because of the lack of "space" allowed on this blog site. The video may take a minute to come up, and it is about a minute and a half long.  Enjoy.

Nice, relaxing pool after a hair raising bike ride!

  If you keep the momentum going, these bikes
just fly over rocks!  My shock absorber on the front of the bike
can "float" up to 6 inches! This bike is 12 years old and
I still love it! Like riding a Cadillac!

We also went on an 8 mile hike/bike  to the Salmon pools, which began very close to our campsite.  This is the only trail within the park that they allow bicycles, and because of all the rocks, we can’t imagine it is often used by bicyclists.

We had an invigorating bike ride bouncing over the intimidating rocks, followed by a 3 mile hike, stopping to admire the pools and waterfalls.  Boy, there is something about brooks and ponds that just calm my sou!l.  The stressed feelings that I might never had been consciously aware of, just melt away.  Interestingly, oceans never have the same effect on me.  Norm just thinks I am weird.  Maybe you do too?

Norm, always climbing to a high point!

Ahhh, I love a chair at the end of the trail.
They have set these Adirondack chairs and the
end of each trail.  Nice! 

We decided to leave beautiful Cape Breton Island a few days early because we felt we saw and did as much as we wanted, or were capable of doing.  There we plenty more hikes here, but we felt we could do them elsewhere with different scenery.