We didn’t journey as far as we had intended today as what we found was so interesting it took up most of the day.

We went along the le Bras d’Or lake road up to St Peters. Here we found a double lock gate where the canal had been cut by hand  by the settlers into granite rock to join the lake to the ocean. Before that they had to portage the ships over the land to the sea!

As we got there the locks were being operated to allow a small Norwegian boat through to reach the ocean.

We liked the town of St Peters and the surrounding coastline of the huge inland lake.

Then we went to a small island Isle of Madame. It seemed to be very Irish and some French there. It was so remote  and because of that so beautiful. Loads of sea birds and little harbours and rocks were there to see and explore.

Back at Sydney we walked along the board walk and took these two photos. Do you like the giant violin? Also the sculpture in memory of the merchant seamen in WW2