We decided to spend Canadian Thanksgiving Day driving along the Cabot Trail and doing a bit of the east portion of Cape Breton Highlands National Park. It was a perfect day, weather-wise, and because it was a national holiday, we were by far not the only ones on the road.
We chose to take a shorter route involving the Englishtown ferry, a one-minute hop across a causeway opening to Lake Bras D'or (which is Canada's largest inland lake, btw). Because it was a nice day and the holiday, we waited 45 minutes for the privilege, much to our chagrin.
Cape Breton Highlands National Park is just one indescribably stunning scene after another, especially when autumn colors are at their absolute peak.
We enjoyed the east coast of our journey so much that we decided to continue and do the full Cabot Trail north circuit, including all of the national park. For that we were rewarded with views of an amazing fault valley, the Aspy Fault.
Running perpendicular to the fault was a hanging glacier valley, something I learned about in college but had never seen for myself before now.
Looking to the north...
...and to the south.
The hills along the park road are impressively steep in spots, so much so that you wonder if your car is going to make it....
...and then you're rewarded with yet another incredulity as you go over the top.
And wonder of wonders, our third moose sighting!! We saw this cow about 3:00 in the afternoon, so the warnings of watch for moose at dusk haven't applied to us at all (saw one at 9:00 a.m., and a pair at noon for our other sightings).
It was hard to get good photos when we got to the west coast, as we were driving into the sun.
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