Moving West

Tuesday morning, we left Doyles and headed for Port aux Basques and the ferry terminal.  It’s a painless process to check in here.  But one of the things they do is ask if we have any potatoes, and things like that.  I guess they don’t want the dirt leaving the island for the mainland.  Bugs?  I don’t know.  Anyway, they would randomly ask people what they had, and were also randomly searching cars.  The other thing they did was randomly wash the cars, including right underneath!  We wanted our truck and RV washed, but no such luck :J

This shows the place we ate the night before (the deck below the “Harbour Restaurant”) and where we wandered along the harbour.

This is from the window in the lounge.  The windows weren’t very clean.  But it gives you some idea of the length of the ferry.  They’re loading some trucks here.

When we leave Port aux Basques, we are very close to the land.  I guess they know what they’re doing :o

It was a pretty smooth, uneventful crossing (just the way I like them).  When we arrived in the North Sydney harbour, there was another ferry just heading out to Newfoundland.  This boat is quite a bit smaller than ours.

So we stayed at the same place we had stayed before crossing to the island, Arm of Gold RV Park.  They had the chip wagon going again - fish and chips and poutine.  So we indulged.  It was about 7 or so until we got there, so most of us were hungry.

Over the course of the last 2 days, I have taken 1 picture, and that was on Cape Breton Island - of a sign, of course.  We laugh because they call their lookouts “lookoffs”.  We just found it humourous.

So that’s it for now.  We stayed near Moncton, NB, last night, and are staying near Edmundston, NB, tonight.  Tomorrow we head for St.-Hyacinthe, QC, just east of Montreal.

By the way, the Hollingers decided to do a bit more touring around and went to Halifax from N Sydney yesterday morning.  They’ll spend a few days there, then start making their way home.  They also plan on doing some visiting in eastern Ontario where John has family, and perhaps visit Judy’s brother on the way as well.  I think he’s around Oshawa/Whitby somewhere.