PS9 - Cape Breton
Driving onto Cape Breton Island means going over the Canso Causeway.
On the left is a quarry mountain (I believe it is called Porcupine, but
I may be wrong), on the right is a collector road that can take you to
Canso (the town, many miles to the south).
View of the Englishtown Channel from a lookoff on the north side of
Kelly's Mountain. The road over it is Highway 105 (part of the Trans-Canada).
St. Ann's Bay, from same.
View of the Great Bras'dor channel from a lookoff on the south side
of Kelly's Mountain. The road over it is Highway 105 (part of the Trans-Canada).
The Seal Island Bridge, joining Kelly's Mountain and Boularderie Island,
from same.
They say that Cape Bretoners aren't normally in a hurry to finish construction
work. "Now, Dave, don't go too fast - we got work as long as it's
not finished!" =)
Seal Island Bridge deck work.
Sunset on Boularderie Island.
Iona, from Boularderie.
View from a section of the Kempt Head Road on the north side of Boularderie.
These two pictures are the view from Nina's (my mom's friend) farm.
On the left is the store where Nina once sold her goat's milk, goat's cheese,
fudges, and other goat products.
This pathway leads to what is, by Nova Scotia standards, a nice beach.
Front: Bear (Nina's dog)
From left to right: Karen (Nina's son's girlfriend), Nina Lynch,
Brenda Johnston-Giles.
I'm not sure what kind of bird this is, but here he his, right outside
my window at Nina's.
Looks like he has friends.
Kempt Head Road, Kempt Head, Boularderie Island (facing south)
The Little Bras'dor channel, as seen from a cow pasture.
One of Nina's two horses. This one is our horse's (Meigh) mother. Personally,
I'm rooting for Meigh to go back home to her family.
I didn't have time to set up a better shot, for as Nina says, "She
doesn't understand 'stop.'"
The mist was heavy the morning we left Nina's, but it burned off a
few hours later.
Nina still does much of the milking by hand. Some of the goats are
quite feminate and don't like being milked by machine.
On the left is Nina's son Adam, though you can't see much of him.
Leaving Cape Breton. This is the view of Mount Porcupine from the 4/19/104/105
junction in Port Hastings.
The bridge segment of the Canso Causeway. It rotates to allow ships
to pass through the canal and navigate the Strait of Canso.