Today finished off our time in Cape Breton. Nice warm morning, 72 after breakfast. We had breakfast in the hotel, packed the car, and took off. By 9:30 we'd gone as far as my farthest point yesterday. (on the website, our first (physical) light is at http://www.lighthousesrus.org/Canada/NovaScotia.htm#NS91, the last one for today is NS 95R). We started at Glace Bay, then got a total miss at Main a Dieu.
Went on to Louisbourg and ended up going through the town 4 times. The light is on the north end of town, but the road signs to the light are only visible from the south. So we went to the fortress, which it turns out is an amazing reconstruction, on the order of Williamsburg, so a whole day or more. Luckily, we got revised directions before we started that and went back through town to get to the light. As we pulled into town, the fog rolled in and the temperature dropped to 61. At the light, there were force 5 winds, very interesting, very accurate, but darn cold.
We went back into town for lunch, then headed south for our next light. It turns out that Delorme doesn't know that the road we were on doesn't go through. So we came back through town to get west.
At this point we ignored the mapping program and followed the signs for the Fleur de Lis trail, and they worked fine. But having lost all that time in transit, we only saw 5 lights today.
We are now just east of Port Hastings, ready to leave the Cape after breakfast tomorrow. We can see boats approaching the bridge from our front porch.
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