A quiet walk around the cove, down to the pier.
The sea was dead calm.
Jim, the innkeeper, uses this boat to give tours of the Sugar Islands.
I could her the occasional door slam and car start as folks started out for their day.
I caught up on my email over coffee in the Sea Wind dining room, looking out at the Sugar Islands. Loriane informed me that Jim would be doing a boat tour. Rosanne & I decided to go.
Innkeeper Jim invited us to a Sea Wind Landing excursion to the Sugar Islands. He shares is love of the area and the marine life it supports several times a week. We saw eagle, osprey, grey seals and harbor seals. Superb !
Jim navigated the Free Spirit among the islands and sandbars for optimum sighting of eagle rookeries and seal beaches.
A glass of wine, good conversation and lunch aboard the Free Spirt. We got to watch the eagles and osprey find their lunch.
These two were high-school friends who hadn't seen each other in years. Gray and his wife Linda drove thru Charlos Cove and Gray realized Jim lived here. Kismit - these two had plenty of good stories.
Nine people on one boat and two Rosannes spelled without a middle 'e' - a rare find.
In Canada they just have you drive THROUGH major construction. This time a construction pickup truck escorted us around the loaders, rock crusher and dump-trucks.
The sign on the bridge welcomes us to Cape Breton after 778 miles on the road. The causeway is the deepest in the world.
We didn't have reservations for a room in Baddeck - and the tourist info center was bustling with others in the same predicament. So we went acrossed the street to the vacancy sign.
After a long day, all I wanted was a much needed shower and a good meal.