Kelly and I wanted to explore other areas on Cape Breton Island - ones perhaps more difficult to reach from within the lakes aboard Fayaway or our little chariot Korykory. Amongst his many offerings, our de facto 'Port Captain' of Baddeck, Paul, kindly reserved for us a rental car in Sydney, about a 45 minute …
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Baddeck
St Peters and Baddeck are the only full-service locations on the Bras D’Or Lakes. Sure you’ll find other communities and local markets here and there, but for the most part it’s fairly rural. Baddeck has a practically new public dock - but it’s not free, and we found, often busy. Fortunately we found very good …
Arm Of Gold
After spending a couple recuperating days visiting St Peters, reprovisioning and enjoying conversation with the jovial Marina manager Gerry, we cast the mooring line, meandered back east past the canal entrance and on toward the larger portion of The Bras D’Or Lakes. Early morning Fayaway on the ball at St. Peters Marina. Adapted from various …
St. Peters Canal
I’m writing about St Peters now in brief retrospect, as once again it seems that time flies at Mach speed this summer, as we make our way across Nova Scotia’s northern Highlands. For the first time in almost three weeks, yesterday we beat into a stiff 15 knots of WSW wind to go west of …
SV Fayaway 