Wednesday was a travel day from Halifax, back to Truro and then north up towards New Glasglow, across the Canso Causeway that connects the Nova Scotia islands, and into North Sydney and the Arm of Gold Campground. The Canso Causeway is the deepest causeway in the world at 217 feet deep. It is 90 feet across on top and 800 feet wide at the bottom with a bridge that swings around to allow boat traffic to pass through. The road to North Sydney travels along the Bras d’Or (pronounced Bruh-door) Lake which is actually an inland sea fed by the Atlantic Ocean. We found out later that Bras d’Or is French for Arm of Gold.
Today we decided we wanted to explore the Cabot Trail and the Cape Breton Highlands National Park instead of what was planned for the caravan. The Cabot Trail is a 185 mile loop around the peninsula with stunning views of the Atlantic coast and the Gulf of St. Lawrence coast with mountains inland. 
We hiked three of the 26 trails in the National Park. The Middle Head trail started at the Keltic Lodge and was about 2.5 miles with views of the Atlantic Ocean, the MacIntosh Brook was a 1.2 mile loop in a quiet forest up to a lovely little waterfall, and the Skyline trail was on the opposite side of the peninsula from the Middle Head trail so we had a clear view of the Gulf of St. Lawrence on a 5.1 mile long trail in what seemed like gale force winds!
We had lunch at a quaint cafe that served wonderful crab cakes in a screen room full of antique bric-a-brac and dinner at the Harbor Restaurant in Cheticamp. It was a long but beautiful day.
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