From Louisbourg we followed the coastline down to St Peters where we stopped for lunch and to look at the canal. The canal was built to connect the Atlantic Ocean with Bras d'Or Lake It was started in 1854 but took 15 years to complete as almost the entire 800 metres had to be dug by hand. Tidal activity at both ends of the canal causes a 1.4m difference in water level between the lake and the ocean. Here we left the Cape Breton area, crossing over the Canso Causeway and travelled on down the Marine Drive and camping for the night at Fox Island just out if the township of Canso. Here the mosquitoes flew in droves and ate like hungry wolves. We had travelled a distance of 263 kms so for us this was a reasonable distance in comparison to our usual average of about 100kms a day.
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