We have heard varying reports on the "Cabot Trail". Some say it is very hilly and winding and not easy to negotiate with a trailer and others have said it's fine as long as you are not in a rush. It is hard to know how to compare this to our roads in NZ where we aren't accustomed to having long straight four lane highways. There is only one way of finding out I guess. After studying the map and the location of the camping grounds we have divided the trail into five spending a night at each. The first section today was a total of 80 kms that took us from Baddeck to Cheticamp Island where we stopped at a camping ground just above a lovely sandy beach. The road was a reasonable with not much traffic on it. The only draw back was most of it had no passing lines and there where not many places where you could pull over to let the traffic past. We all know how frustrating it can be being stuck behind some jolly tourist meandering along in their motorhome! We took a walk along one of the trails which took us out over the cliff top where we could see all the gulls and black shags nesting - you could small it as well! As it was a fairly hot night we took a walk along the beach after tea just as the sun was setting.
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