Daily Archives: September 3, 2009
Fresh Haddock and Fortress Louisbourg…
If you’re just visiting our blog for the first time, or you are new to blogging, note that the most recent posting is at the top of this page. To read the posts in order you can start at the bottom and work your way up. To go to the very beginning of our blog, Click Here. Also, at the bottom of each day’s post, is a reference to Comments. You can click here to post your comments, or read what others have written. You can also email Greg at [email protected] or Jan at [email protected].
Today we packed up and headed toward Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, which is about 40 miles from where we will catch the ferry tomorrow…or rather, tomorrow night at 11:00 pm for the 15 hour ferry ride to Argentia, Newfoundland.
Our park here in Antigonish is actually right downtown, and is pretty nice.
Whidden RV Park
And it came complete with a bridge and a babbling brook.
Antigonish Bridge
Antigonish Brook
The 135 mile drive to Louisbourg, to put it plainly, just sucked!
We had long stretches of bad road, intermixed with shorter lengths of really, really bad roads. And we had a 25 minute wait for construction.
And I’m really dreading the trip back to the States after we return from Newfoundland, because we’ll have to go back on the same road. There’s only one.
Anyway, we pulled into the RV park about 3 pm and got set up. The park is right on the water next to the docks. Talk about scenic!
Louisbourg RV
That’s our rig in the very front.
This time I didn’t even try the satellite since there was a building in the way. And since we’ll only be here one day before we head to Newfoundland, I won’t worry about it.
Later we drove over to the Fortress View restaurant for a great meal of Fish and Chips. This was fresh haddock, right off the boat. Really good!
After dinner we took a drive around the town. One of the sites to see is Fortress Louisbourg, built by Louis XV when the French held this area.
Fortress 1
Fortress 3
And of course, more great views.
Louisbourg 1
Louisbourg 2
Louisbourg 3
Louisbourg 4
Coming back to the park, I walked down to the docks in front of the park. It’s easy to see why the fish at dinner was so fresh.
Louisbourg RV Docks 1
Louisbourg RV Docks 2
More tomorrow…
