Back from a great day on Cabot Trail today. It started out rainy and foggy, and I was really hesitant about us going since we figured we wouldn't see much today. But we're heading back to New Brunswick tomorrow, so this was our only chance, so we went anyway. It was pretty dismal for the first part of the day, but the drive is just so gorgeous, we were glad we did go.
It was foggy for the first couple of hours, so we didn't take any pictures, even though the fog really gave everything a mystical look. We went on and into Cape Breton National Park. Cabot Trail goes through the park along some pretty crazy winding roads. Anyway, we took a wrong turn at one point and realized it right away, but the road was too narrow to turn around right away so we continued on it for a while, where we came upon this:
It's a juvenile bald eagle, and there were actually 2 of them just soaring over us, They were so cool!
I was so excited to see (and hear) them - so we decided it wasn't a "wrong" turn after all. I mentioned to DH that it would be neat if we saw an adult eagle that close too, and he agreed.
So, we went back to the "right" road and drove on and eventually the sun came out. We pulled over at several lookout points and snapped a few pictures (I'll post them later), and then came to this one, right on the edge of a cliff. As we were admiring the view of the rocks and sea below, all of a sudden we spotted this:
He flew around right at our eye level for a few minutes then soared higher and higher. It was just breath-taking!