Our Adventure Continues

One of the best aspects of staying at the Sea Parrot is their breakfast. Lonnie is known for her awesome Belgium waffles. She said that people have actually booked rooms just because they heard how delicious her waffles are and we can believe it. These are not just your ordinary waffles, they are filled with delicious fruit! You are totally full by the time you finish breakfast because along with the waffles you get cereals, granola, yogurt, fresh fruit, juice and coffee.
After our fulfilling breakfast, we were ready to burn some fat and oh boy, did we ever. We had mentioned to Roy that we were interested in purchasing land someday in the area to open our own cabins. He gave us directions of some properties that he knew of that were for sale. Steve and I had nothing really planned for the day, so we thought it would be fun to check it out. It was a bit of a hike in to the first property. We wanted to hike the whole way in to see the view of the ocean that it had. That morning, we had checked a few water front properties which involved a lot of bush wacking and hiking, but we had a ton of fun.
One of the properties had a cemetery in the middle of it which was sort of weird because we weren't really expecting to see that, but it also boasted the most beautiful view of the ocean and cliffs. It also had remains of some huge cement blocks that look like it was part of a large fishing wharf. We noticed a year carved in that read 1944. We are currently researching the history of the area. Of course, it is going to be a long time before we actually consider buying the land, but right now it is just a dream.
After lunch at the Clucking Hen, we decided to grab a nearby cache. The cache took us on the Red Island Trail. Again, this was the first time both of us had been there. The trail was quite nice, but the flies were nasty. Though after we did the cache, we weren't quite satisfied. We wanted to explore more and actually see this Red Island the trail was name after. We found a trail that branched out to a peninsula and we thought this might lead us to the island. The walk along the beach was a lot of fun. Steve played "fisherman" by fixing all the lobster traps we would come across.
Well, after hiking a long distance along the peninsula, it turned out that Red Island isn't an island after all. It's just a big peninsula. Oh well, we still had a blast. We spent a lot of time out on the shore, collecting shells, fixing traps, and taking photos. The weather kept changing the whole time we were there which explains the Cape Breton saying" If you don't like the weather here, wait 5 minutes and it'll change". By the time, we returned back to the car it felt like our legs were about to fall off.
The hike definitely worked up an appetite so we went back for dinner at the Clucking Hen and had mouth watering pan fried haddock. By the time, we arrived back to the Sea Parrot we were pretty much exhausted. This concluded our little vacation for just the two of us. The next morning, we woke up and headed back on the road. Of course, not before gobbling down another one of Lonnie's amazing waffles. It was wonderful spending some much needed quality time with my husband before he gets deployed for 6 months to Iraq. It was really needed. The three days of our vacation was so nice. It just too bad that it couldn't be longer. Steve needs to hurry back from his deployment so that we can do it all again.