Beautiful Nova Scotia

We arrived in Stellarton, Nova Scotia on Sunday afternoon, October 3, after crossing St. Lawrence Gulf on a large ferry.  We were greeted with a small boy playing bagpipes upon our arrival at the hotel.

Early the next morning, after breakfast, we boarded the bus to tour the beautiful Cabot Trail at Cape Breton, the northern part of Nova Scotia.  Our first stop was at a beautiful little Acadian fishing town of Cheticamp.  We went to Flora's gift shop where we saw hook rugs for sale and samples being worked on.

Then we visited Saint Pierre's Catholic Church nearby in Cheticamp.  This beautiful old church was built by the Acadians in the 1800s.  Our group was invited to come inside the church and some of the group sang from the beautiful choir loft.  It was beautiful!

From the church on the west side of Cape Breton, we followed the coastal trail along the St Lawrence Gulf to the Atlantic Ocean on the east coast.  The scenery was beautiful. There were several golf courses along the way at Ingonish, and we stopped at a famous one, and used the restroom at a club house there.

We got back to Stellarton, late in the afternoon and spent another night there before going on to Halifax and Peggy's Cove the next day.

More about that later.