We woke up at a more civilised time this morning, temperature was 14C with overcast skies. We started the day with a quick geo-cache hunt for our first find in New Brunswick. Back at home I had loaded up the GPS for caches along our route, but for some reason the GPS didn’t recognise the file. Luckily my latest toy, a windows phone came to the rescue and I was able to download the data and use the phone as a GPS!
Next stop was breakfast, then we hit the road for some leisurely cruising. We stopped at a New Brunswick Information centre for some travel guides (and another cache). Very shortly after that we crossed into Nova Scotia and stopped at their travel centre for more info and another cache.
We continued on at a leisurely pace through Nova Scotia and Cape Breton to North Sydney to board the ferry to Newfoundland.
View From the Passengers Seat
We were both surprised at the size of the ferry and the amenities on board, it was like a mini cruise ship. We even have an ocean view cabin! As this is a 15 hour crossing, the cabin made good sense, and its cost was not much different to a nights stay in a hotel.
Room With a View
The only problem to date is that there is no refrigerator in the cabin to make ice for our G&T’s, a cheeky trip to the bar may be in order to try and get them to part with some. Actually a second problem has just occurred; Lyn wrote all the details of places to go into a word document and left them on her computer. Luckily we are still with in cell distance from the shore so hopefully Paul will be able to e-mail them to us.
Time for pre-dinner drinks and then food.
Well, the pre-dinner G&T was a bit if a disaster as I opened the can of tonic just a little close to the computer keyboard. After two days of travelling there were a lot of bubbles waiting to escape, and escape they did!! Hopefully I have removed them all from the computer. If there are no more entries, you know why!