Cape Breton is truly a beautiful island but with its fecund mountains rolling down to a dark blue sea. Fog is never far away here. It often only clears out for a short time. We immediately went on the premier walk since we had rain forecasted for the next few days. We walked on the top of a mountain out to a overlook of the sea- the Gulf of St Lawrence. It reminds us a lot of Big Sur. The next day we took a walk to a falls and drove some on the famous road around the park called the Cabot Trail. The park is huge but only has a road around the outside of it. That evening we went to a motel where the park rangers told us there would be some Celtic music. There was a fiddle player and a guitar player. They were great. The locals were dancing to the music. A visiting person played the harmonica. He was fantastic. I told him I had never heard a harmonica sound beautiful before. I heard someone at the motel say there was a Celtic festival the next afternoon in a near by town, so we went looking for it. Got to the 55th Annual Broad Cove Scottish Concert about 3:00 thinking it would be over between 4 and 5, but it was just starting. It was an out side concert that went on till 9:00PM. We stayed for it all. You can hardly keep from dancing to the music and the fiddle players always pat one foot but by the time the music gets faster ( which it always does) both feet are dancing away. Had some step dancers like the River Dancers but was mainly fiddle payers with accompaniment. Today we drove all the way around the end of the park and walked out on a peninsular through the wood overlooking the ocean.
No comments:
Post a Comment