Up and away from Dartmouth first thing, heading north east up the highway, with bagels on board…
By lunchtime we had made it to Guysborough, which as you’ll be aware, is the location of Canada’s most easterly park run route. Despite it being a combination of floofing hot and cracking flags hot (32c) Alana and I put on our running shoes and headed off along the trail. Sensible Kathy walked in the shade.
40 minutes later Kathy came to find us looking like melted puddles of sweat on the track… and we still had a kilometre to go 🥵
However, we saw an interesting roadsign, a red squirrel and an American Robin, as well as some beautiful scenery, so it wasn’t all bad. And Kathy appeared to have become a magnet for the local mosquito population. 😩
Sweaty and generally unpleasant, we found the sea and stood in it for a while to cool down. Then, still eating bagels we headed back to the Trans Canada Highway to Louisbourg. The scenery in places was utterly beautiful, with wooded hills (at least 31 million - we counted them!) rising up out of the blue, blue sea, and tiny villages popping up along the route. We also spotted a white-tailed eagle soaring over a high ridge.
Louisbourg itself is really an ‘end if the road’ place. There literally isn’t anything past here.
We stayed in a lodge on the outskirts of town, and next day got up and went to the Fortress. It was one of the places that Kathy really wanted to visit, and it certainly lived up to its billing. It’s a recreation of the 1740s fort, with many many costumed staff who are happy to tell you everything!
We saw a troop of soldiers firing muskets and a cannon (very loud!), bought some authentically produced “upper class” bread (50/50 white/rye: the middle class bread wholemeal/rye had sold out!), had a guided tour in a golf buggy, watched a public punishment (you can pre-book to be Prisoner of the Day!), learnt about vegetable gardening and animal farming and domestic engineering, in 1740s Louisbourg, watched some trad dancing, ate a thoroughly modern lemon cheesecake, peeked in many recreated houses… so much to do!
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