Marine Trail

We started off bright and early this morning (breakfast at 7), got to the causeway just as a boat was entering the lock (so that's the first 20 minutes of the trip). Got some gas ($30, about 5 gallons), didn't see another gas station till I'd almost run out (2PM).




Things went smoothly till we got to Isaac's Harbor. Directions told us to drive 4 miles, then walk 5 minutes. We drove 2 miles to the locked barrier, and tried to walk. It was pretty forest, but we did the arithmetic and figured we had 2 miles more to walk in, then another 2 to walk out. So, ... we bailed out.


Came back to the main road and started looking around. Sure 'nuf, you can see the light from the road. Not close, but that's what long lenses are for.

We grabbed lunch at the visitors center (only place we'd seen since breakfast) - cone of ice cream, augmented by raisons from our supplies and proceeded on. Shortly we saw a note that said "road ends in 300 meters." Sure 'nuf, it did. The good news is that it was a ferry, so only had to wait 15 minutes, we didn't need to backtrack.

After that, all went well. We arrived in Halifax, our hotel had a reservation, we found dinner. As of Saturday morning, I have updated the web site and you can see these lights starting at http://www.lighthousesrus.org/Canada/NovaScotia.htm#NS65, and plans for tomorrow (see the citadel, take harbor tour, nice dinner) may not allow a web site update tomorrow. So next news is probably Monday.