Halifax and Cape Breton Island

With no chance of drying out our stuff in the 100% humidity and continuing drizzle we wring out our gear as best we can and pack up. We stop for breakfast in a small place in the town of Alma right next to the park and then we head off for Nova Scotia.
We have to take a round about way by going up to Moncton and then across to the border.
We passed by a few sights on the way but we decided to come to these on the way back though in hopes of finding better weather in a few weeks.
We hit the border and stocked up on maps and pamphlets and then headed for Halifax.
A few hours later and we found ourselves in Halifax but with no idea where the hotels were hiding. Thanks to a kind local who saw we were in trouble and directed us to where we could find the hotel strip.
We got a hotel and found ourselves having to do some house keeping. Laundry got done and we tried to dry out some things from the night before.

The next day we visited the Halifax Citadel national monument which is the old fort that the city was built around. It was a cool place. It's hard to see how anyone could get into it using only the technology of the 1800's.
There were many old cannons and they had several examples of the newer muzzle and breech loaded rifled canons.

We stopped at a seaside park and finally got to be at the real ocean. It was amazing to find shells of sea urchins with their spikes still on them and there were so many clam and snail shells. A big wave sent some water flying and I found out just how salty the sea is. Pretty salty!

We then left the city made a long run to Cape Breton island where we stayed the night just past the causeway that bridges the strait.

In the morning we headed to North Sydney to get a hotel so we could be ready for our 7:30 ferry ride. We got there around noon and then headed out to the Cabot trail to kill time for the afternoon. Part of this trip put us over a mountain that went from sea level to 240 meters and then down again. We used this opportunity to watch how the pressure sensor would read as we went up and down. At sea level we were reading about 101800 pascals and at the top of the mountain it went all the way down to 98700, a 3100 pascal difference.
The Cabot trail is a nice scenic drive that heads though the coastal valleys. Later if the weather improves we will take this route all the way to the Cape Breton Highlands national park and camp there.

Tonight we sleep early. Little did we know how much we would need this sleep...