Thursday - a longish drive

On Thursday, we drove from Broad Cove Campground in Ingonish, in the Cape Breton Highlands National Park, to Wayside Camping Park, in Glen Margaret, near Peggy's Cove, and outside Halifax, Nova Scotia. 

We had been concerned about the drive out from Broad Cove to Trans Canada Highway 105 - it took about 90 minutes to make that part of the drive...

... this was a relatively straight section, but you can see that the edge of the road surface is in pretty rough shape, and the shoulder is even worse. Carl said that he was prepared to use the road as a one-lane road if necessary, straddling the center line as long as no one was coming from the other direction, stopping if there was someone coming and the road surface was too bad to use to be able to make use of the oncoming traffic lane. The good part about the trip "out" was that the falling-away part did not fall away to a multi-foot drop into the water, as was the case going out to the campground last Sunday.

But then, there were beautiful views at times too. We had a little bit of blue sky for the beginning of our trip.

We stopped at a shopping center with a Canadian Tire store and had lunch. One of the challenges that we have found on the highways in Canada is that there are no rest areas or pull offs -- or at least, none marked. Sometimes we'll see a likely spot as we are driving past it, too late to turn into it. I had checked out a couple of locations as potential overnight stops in case the weather made it not feasible to make the whole trip on Thursday, so we used one of those - at the mall with the Canadian Tire store - for our lunch stop. Although it was rainy and a little windy, we were able to continue on, eventually making it to our campground outside of Peggy's Cove by mid-afternoon.

We are hoping to visit several sites around this area while we are staying here.