Highlands National Park/Cape Breton

We bundled up (43 degrees)this a.m. I had on twice as much as Nancy did. We headed down the East side of C.B. We found cups of coffee and hot chocolate to eat with our muffins from yesterday.
Our first trail was walking to the end of White Point. It had rained off and on but wasn't when we began. We walked to one of the end, high on rocks above the Atlantic. It started to sprinkle and we were a long way from the car. Nancy "hauled buggy" and I only sauntered down because I'm not taking any chances with my knee. We both were at the car when the rain really started. We headed back up the Cabot Trail/ We had to stop many times because men were working on the road to get prepared for winter.
All this time we looked for a place to have breakfast. We like to start out with this especially if we're going on a hike. No luck. We proceeded down the road stopping at a lot of the coves. The sun finally came out when we got to Green Cove. We walked up (of course)to the top of a bunch of pink, white and grey granite. Can you believe it was finally high tide. The waaaaves crashed on the rocks before us, making great pictures.
At 11:00 we finally found a place for breakfast. They can't mess that up. After that we filled up the car with gas and headed for the Keltic Lodge, a gorgeous hotel, convention center up on a penisula. We used their powder room but thought the penthouse for $1,600 was out of our range. We did the Middle Head trail behind the lodge.(2.5 miles) Again the trail went up and down mostly rocky. It was well worth it though. We were high on the point, waves crashing and the sun was still out !!!!! We met some other hikers on the way down they said they had seen a bald eagle and a golden eagle flying around up there but by the time we got there they were gone. We had worked up such a sweat, Nancy had taken off one sweatshirt, I had taken off two.
We continued on down the road to Baddeck, a fairly large town.(1 street) It was getting late and we were tired and didn't know what accommodates were around the corner. We treated ourselves to the Lynwood Lodge. We walked down the street and found a small diner and had fried chicken and mash potatoes. Potatoes are grown up here so they're served at each meal
The whirlpool in our room helped our aching body. We tried to get something on t.v. but all there was was sports. That seems to be true on most of their stations. Sorry if I have repeated myself. It's difficult to type something that I wrote several days before.