Day 7 Green Cove to KOA Seal Island

May 26, 2013

Falls at Black Rock

Nice, peaceful night…it rained and it is really foggy and a cool 56 degrees.  I think I heard a coyote in the morning.  Took a short walk to check out the falls.


Today our Rv took us from Green Cove to the KOA in Seal Island, NS.

 



Our digs for the night

Really neat rock with striations of orange/granite

Stopped at Green Cove to take some photos of the foggy cove and funky rocks (grey is Kneiss and the orange is pink and white granite).  Took a look at Broad Cove campground in the park and saw one van checking out the place but no one was camping. We thought about staying there but wanted to go a little further today and didn’t need to spend the $25 for unserviced site. 


The park entrance fee is $7.80 per adult and for that we got entrance until the following day at 4 pm.  There are also “towns” outside of the park (like Pleasant Bay, Cape North, South Harbor, Dingwall, Neils Harbor, Ingonish) that if you can find a space to tuck into and assuming you are not a huge unit you could possibly overnight there and still be on the entry fee only.



Panoramic of our overnight spot/Respite from the hills from hell.

Three sided shelter with wood stove...nice touch!

 

David hiked up Broad Mountain and I elected to sit this one out….a short hike.  I caught up on blog.

Broad Mountain...from the summit - David's hike


 

Lichen Land...I liken this one!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



more lichen



Middlehead Hike

We both hiked Middlehead near Keltic Lodge in Cape Breton Island National Park.   Despite seeing scat From coyotes, moose…off we went.  CREEPY!  Each hike comes with a stick at the start of the hike…think hiking stick that people leave there.  The stick is to ward off coyotes that might give you problems…more creepy!  Moose you are supposed to give a wide berth too….not sure how you do that when they say a football field’s worth and you could come across them around a bend driving or walking on a trail.

 

Hiked another trail for a bit…seeing scat from coyote, BEAR, and moose….creepy!

 

 

More Green Cove with fabulous rock markings

Since the weather was fine, the SUN was actually shining (as opposed to FOG/rain) , and the last campground was closed (the visitor center in Cheticamp also neglected to tell us that),  we elected to  exit the park (Cape Breton Island National Park).  Sometime during the past hours while looking at the map and reading my notes, I realized there was another white knuckle event coming up....big time stress that I tried hard to knock back.  


This one was a 20% grade uphill and  downhilll for one mile…I am OKAY with up…down…not at all.   David is a supreme driver and he put it in low gear and applied brakes the whole way down.  I lived through it and actually thought this one was a bit easier than the 4km/2.4 miles crawl down the mountain.
Beer for everyone in celebration.


We nosed around for places to overnight (for free) but settled on a KOA seal Island. For $37. 00 we got laundry ($5.) NICE hot water showers and electric…whooohooo. We looked along the way for flat places that didn't say "no camping" and they were hard to find so a campground worked for us this time.

We thought our refrigerator was on the fritz but after taking a bunch of stuff apart, David miraculously fixed it.  It is really nice having Mr. Fix it on board!  Kind of makes up for the fact that he can’t cook…even burned ramen once!  (Please note the ramen was only a one time experiment.)
Another successful day in our motorhome travels.