Sunday- Although we were at a remote spot near the extreme north end of Nova Scotia, we learned that there was an 11 a.m. Sunday Mass at the nearby fishing village of Dingwall. We drove over there with the trailer in tow. The priest was an older man covering for the regular priest who was away somewhere. He introduced himself to the small congregation, and surprised us with the fact that for the last 10 years he has been wintering at a church in Seminole, only a few minutes from our Florida home. He is retired as a priest, but he says that means he works all the time. After church a local man spotted our Florida tags and spent several minutes giving us helpful tips about things to see this week in Nova Scotia.
Following that advice, we diverted from the main Cabot Trail highway and took a coastal road around the NE corner of Nova Scotia, following the headlands way above beaches and rocks below. Our campground is near Ingonish on the east coast, a place we camped with our kids 45 years ago. I remember we all got badly sunburned here. Not this time, it turns out. After setting up camp, despite threatening weather we drove a few miles and took a short hike out a rocky narrow peninsula with good views of the ocean in all directions. Later we went out to dinner at a little restaurant overlooking the ocean. Excellent fried scallops and other local seafood, including mussels about five times the size of those we had last year in Normandy and Brittany. Their wifi brought us a bad weather forecast, and indeed it started to rain lightly by the time we got 'home'.
Monday- Rain all day. 55F all day. Forget the hiking, cycling and canoeing. Fortunately we had a backup activity planned. With difficulty we found a laundromat not far away. We weren't the only ones to decide it was a good day to do laundry, so waiting for machines to be available and waiting for the slow machines to do their thing helped fill the hours of the day. S had an interesting conversation with a Quebecois couple who had just returned from Newfoundland with a couple of tips, and also a couple from Alberta with a teenage boy. The father and son played basketball outside in the rain. As I write at 5:30, the forecast is for fog tomorrow and rain the rest of the week. Not at all the good weather we've seen throughout this trip. If tomorrow is foggy but not rainy we may stay an extra day and at least put the canoe in the river here.
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