Day 12 - August 10, 2015 - Eastern Vacation

Today was mainly a driving day.  We left Louisbourg this morning and had several stops along the way for coffee, for lunch and we also stopped in Port Hawksbridge to have our tires rotated as the van was not handling as well as it did last year and Pete had just rotated the tires before we left.  We had them put back the original way, but we're not sure if it made any difference.  We have had major winds every day here and the roads are not very good most of the time so it's very difficult to judge handling.  We also took a small ferry to save about 45 min. of driving. We arrived about 2 min. late for the 5:00 p.m. sailing and watched it pull away. While waiting in line we met the two gentleman in the car behind us.  One a retired Coast Guard who was 75 and one an 85 year old who did lobster fishing and owned a general store.  They were so friendly and talked cheerfully during our 1/2 hr. wait and during the trip on the ferry.  On the ferry which holds 12 cars, but we had only 5 aboard, everyone got out and came over to chat with us.  A couple from St. Catharines, and a couple from Washington, DC.  A very pleasant little trip!  .We stopped for the night near Sherbrooke in a little campground owned by the fishing and hunting association.  It is on a quiet little lake and you can camp about 3 feet away from it.  Very peaceful!
I don't think I mentioned that on Sunday night in Louisbourg we had a torrential rain.  We heard on the radio yesterday morning that parts of Cape Breton got 90 mm and the rest about 50 mm.  We stayed quite dry, but felt terrible for those camping in tents around us.  I saw a cup being used as a baler through the zipper of the tent beside us. Today we also included some pictures of our campsite in Louisbourg.  All the sites had a picnic shelter with them.  One of the shots of the harbour is from sitting in our shelter.

Lunch Break