Back in Nova Scotia

We took the ferry across to Sydney, Nova Scotia, today.

It appeared that the trash was traveling with us on the ferry - or maybe it is metal recycling.

All loaded up - the upper vehicle deck was partially open to the outside - they put a livestock truck on the very back (maybe to ensure that it had plenty of air circulation?) as well as a couple of tankers - at least one of them was carrying liquid carbon dioxide. The announcement from the loudspeaker had just finished telling us that smoking was only allowed in designated smoking areas - wonder if those exhaust stacks were in the designated smoking area?

The town of Port aux Basques (or maybe its name is Channel-Port aux Basques?) as we were leaving.

It was a beautiful day to be crossing

As we got within an hours of arriving in Sydney, one of the ship's crew raised the Nova Scotia (on the right) and Marine Atlantic (on the left) flags - we didn't notice if they had had the Newfoundland flag raised before we left Channel-Port aux Basques.

We have reservations to stay at Cheticamp in the Cape Breton Highlands National Park starting tonight... but... Miss Doozie's headlights aren't working, and by the time the ferry docked (about 6pm), and we got off, and got fuel for the Jeep and Miss Doozie (649.53CAD to fill her up, but it was about .20 less per liter than in Newfoundland), we were running out of daylight. So, we stopped at a location that was documented in the "Days End Directory" from Escapees along the highway, and will finish driving to Cheticamp in the morning. We have 5 nights reserved there, so will hopefully get to see all we want to see in the remaining time.