Sunday - July 22, 2007

Wow, we haven’t seen so much rain in a long time. It rained all evening and all night then it was off and on for most of this morning. We finally decided that we wouldn’t melt if we got wet so headed for Fortress Louisbourg and lo and behold the rain stopped shortly before we got there, and then about 2 the sun came out and it got quite warm. It was only about 15C when we left here but it was about 22C when we got through at the fortress, so we were happy that it had turned into such a nice afternoon.

When we got to the Visitors Centre we found out that you have to take a bus to the fortress as the centre is quite a long ways from the actual fortress. They had interesting displays in the Visitors Centre that you could look at on the way to the bus. We took a quick look on the way there then spent longer looking at them on the way out. The fortress was very interesting and surprisingly enough it really wasn’t very busy so we didn’t have to battle any crowds to see things. We bought a loaf of rye bread at the bakery so it will be interesting to see what it tastes like – it is very heavy so I don’t know what it will be like, we were thankful we didn’t buy it until on the way out.

After the fortress we toured around the town of Louisbourg then drove out to the lighthouse. The ocean was rolling in real good so it was quite pretty and the fog horn was blaring away so it was also noisy. We then went into Sydney to Swiss Chalet for dinner – thanks Kel, Tim and kids, we really enjoyed it.

John is now hooking up the trailer as we have to be out of here about 7:30 tomorrow morning and I have got as much done inside as I can so we can be ready to roll quite quickly in the morning. We will probably wait and have breakfast when we get to the dock as we will have at least an hour to wait before boarding. This morning I went online to check our reservation and it kept rejecting my reservation number and password so I got a little panicky and called Marine Atlantic. All was well, they still have our reservation for the morning and she said the reservation program was giving them problems, so I got panicky for nothing.

Tonight we had a nice sunset, the first we have seen in quite a while.