Day 4, Baddeck and making the most of it.

August 15th:  The family that runs the inn were gracious and were able to move us into another room for the weekend, one in fact with a kitchen.  After a very nice breakfast at the inn, we decided that we should use the bikes  (we got our bikes on Friday morning at 10 am promptly, as arranged over 6 months prior - Pedal and Sea is a first rate group for sure).  We took a “shake out” ride that we had originally planned for Friday, up to the Uisge Ban waterfalls just out of town.  This was a perfect way to check out the bikes and make all the adjustments, which we did, from seat heights to fixing squeaky brakes.  The hike at the waterfalls was awesome and all in all we did about 20 to 25 miles on the bikes. We checked out the local food store and got some nice meal fixings, and enjoyed a great evening with home cooking. Beer is very expensive here--about $3.00 a can and they only sell single cans or 12 in a box, no six-packs. Not much craft beer either, much to Aaron’s disappointment. He does like Hops and Robbers IPA though.

Heidi at the trail head for the Uisge Ban Falls

The falls, very nice and really flowing.  Great spot for sure.

As far as I can recall this is the first time I have stood in the Atlantic Ocean, the water was actually not too cold, helped that it was a warm day.

A nice view of our inn, all the joined buildings are part of it.  After our first and only planned night the owners moved us to a small studio at the top of the very far right building (you can see the lone window).  This was a nice room and had a nice little kitchen.