Cape Breton Highlands National Park

We drove into the Park

What a beautiful corner of the world.

with rocky outcrops

roads that clung to mountainsides

where the ocean shimmered between mountains that dipped towards the shore.

The mountains were still green on that trip

but we have to go back again

and then the colours will be spectacular

I am told they always are

Way too many photos

I know

but every line of coast

or dip of a mountain

or strip of road

caught between ocean and mountain

could start a line of stitch.

Walking the Beaches of Inverness

Our B&B was close to the beach in Inverness

We made sure we found time to walk the beach

at least twice a day

and what a treat that was.

The waves roared in across the Gulf of Saint Laurence

and some days the wind was quite something

but there is nothing like sea air to clear the cobwebs of the mind!

On one windy cloudless morning a juvenile eagle

flew right over us

and was already down the beach by the time I focussed the camera!

I found several pieces of sea glass

and some beautiful driftwood which I agreed to leave behind!

A boardwalk runs between the beach and the golf course

which Handy Hubby would have loved to play

.....perhaps another time.

Moody clouds scuttled over the beach one day.

I think we all love a beach

and the rhythm of waves and tides

Every evening

the sunsets were amazing.