Sunday, August 6, 2023
We had a quiet night in the Truro WalMart parking lot last night. There were at least 13 other RVs in the parking lot when we woke up this morning. First, we headed back toward the Fundy Discovery Center that we tried to visit yesterday but wouldn’t drive through the water to get there. Today there was no water over the road in the area we could see but the road was now barricaded and there certainly could have still be water further on down the road.
We decided to drive on to Cape Breton. It was so hot when we were here two weeks ago that we skipped some hikes we had on our to do list. Today we decided to hike to Uisge Ban Falls (pronounced OOSH-KA-ban, ISH-KA-ban, or Eeesh-kah-ban) and is Gaelic for “white water”. Cape Breton has very strong Irish and Scottish roots. The hike is rated moderate on All Trails and that is probably about right. Currently the road into the Provincial Park is closed due to a washed out bridge so we had to walk down the road and over the closed bridge to get to the trail head. The first portion of the actual trail is easy with a nice gravel path to follow. Closer to the falls there are rocks and boulders to climb over or around to get a good view of the falls. You then arrive at a tall waterfall in a beautiful granite gorge that today had a lot of water flowing over it. It was a great hike with a really good payoff for the effort. Our total hike was 2.8 miles. However, about 2/3s of the way back to BB, it began to rain – really rain. We were drenched. Sure glad we had BB with all our clothes.
After changing into dry clothes we drove about 25 minutes to our Harvest Host site for the night. It’s a brewery but they also have smash burgers and pizza. Unfortunately, they were sold out of pizza and the food truck for the smash burgers was closed for the one night of the season. Oh well, we had plenty of food in the freezer. While we were eating supper, to our surprise our friends Owen and Lynn pulled into the parking lot. We knew they were in Cape Breton but didn’t know where. We had another good evening of visiting with them. So much fun to meet up with friends on the road. Hope you have all had a great weekend.
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