Morning all. Another glorious Cape Breton morning. This place reminds me of Ireland. Supposedly rainy - "we didn't have two sunny days together all summer, blah blah blah" ....... so why is the sky always blue, the sun always warm ..... but the grass is VERY green.
Yesterday was terrific. We've never stayed to kick back an extra day before and Baddeck quiets right down. Quite noticable in a town of 900 when 2000 people leave. John, our innkeeper, lent us his zodiak and we took off on the Bras d'Ors toodling in the coves, around Bein Breah (the Bell estate) and over to the back side of the swim island off Baddeck. We tied up at BYC and spent an hour or so watching OMEBA, a cement boat (yes) go in for the season. It looks like a traditional wooden boat but she's cement and it takes quite the crane to put her in. Apparently $4,000 each to put her in and take her out. She's a tour boat here in the summer and has spent time in the carribean booked as a charter boat. When they finally got her up off the cradle and over above the water, the wind caught and pushed her out a foot or so. When she swung back the guys were pushing for dear might because she was down enough to hit the foundation dock wall but not down far enough for the fenders to protect her. It was pretty close. After that we could see some weather coming over the lake so we hopped back in took off back to John's house to tie up and finish off the day with glass of wine and left over chicken pot pie. Nice Did I say finish off the day? Rose, the other half of the inn keeping duo and who runs the awesome Outdoor Store in Beddeck, organizes a group of women to work out twice a week. I was invited but didn't know what time. As soon as I'd finished the strawberry/rhubarb pie (after the chiken pie) she arrived to collect me! Quick change and we were off. Dinner was a little bouncy in the tummy but I was determined to hold up the Ontario end. Those Cape Breton women have some abs! We have an early flight today so we were in bed early last night. We're just going to have coffee with John and a couple Dale and Mary form Iowa, settle up and go to Sydney to catch our flight. See you at home soon
