Monday, August 7, 2023
Woke up to off and on rain this morning. We are watching the weather a little more closely since a friend sent us information from Meteologix Canada indicating there is a possibility of a hurricane affecting the Canadian Maritimes around August 15. This information was a surprise to us, but you know we will now watch things closely. If need be, will cut our trip short or find a place to hunker down if needed. It is still very early but we do appreciate the heads up.
This morning after another “see you down the road” to Lynn, Owen and Maggie we went on another hike we had skipped when here last, Egypt Falls. It’s not a very long hike and is listed a moderate on All Trails but it’s a pretty tough hike. It’s just pretty much all down hill from the start and therefore all uphill on the return. There are several places where there are ropes to use to keep you from sliding down the hill or help you get back up. We needed the ropes a few times. It was also a little muddy and slippery today. However, the payoff was tremendous. This is now our favorite water fall in Cape Breton, and probably of this trip.
After completing the hike we headed to a laundromat to dry our clothes that were drenched yesterday. We hung them in the shower last night with a fan but…still wet this morning. They were dry in 20 minutes at the laundry mat and then we went back into the National Park. We went back to the Skyline Trail because another thing on our to-do list is to hike to the point at sunset. We left the parking lot at about 7:00 to hike out to the point on the Skyline trail. Sunset was not until 8:26 but it’s about 1.7 miles out to the point and we didn’t know how crowded it would be. There were people there waiting for sunset but not really as many as we expected. It was windy and the closer to sunset it got, the colder it got. Unfortunately, it also started misting rain. Never really rained hard, but we were glad for our raincoats and they were quite damp by the time we got back to BB. It was not a magnificent sunset but it was a good one. We like our pictures and are glad we made the effort. So now after a short drive, we are at another Ioverlander spot in Pleasant Bay. There are several other vans here and we can listen to the surf beating against the shore all night. It was another great day.
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