Nova Scotia Day 14 - Hanging Out in Yarmouth

In the original ride plan, this was to be our ferry day - getting up early to get to the ferry landing, where we would begin the journey back to the United States via the Bay Ferries Limited vessel called The CAT. All was well with this plan until the 2017 sailing schedule was released, and we found the ferry doesn't sail from Yarmouth on Wednesdays. This left us with a choice: hurry through the ride down the coast and cut the entire adventure a day short, or stay the course with the ride as designed, idle for a day in Yarmouth, and then start the trek home. We opted for the latter.

In the second plan for this day, I had us routed up the coast from Yarmouth toward Digby, just checking out more of the Nova Scotian coastline. Finally arriving on Day 13, we were confronted with a couple of realizations. First, we were road-weary. Next, we had a motorcycle in need of repair, and didn't want to go off riding while our brother Randall was left to work on his 2014 Ultra Classic CVO. So we devised a welcome plan for the rest of us:

1. Sleep in.
2. Go to see the Cape Forchu Lighthouse as planned, but use the chase car.
3. Do laundry.
4. Take a nap, resting up for the long push home.
5. Have an earlier-than-normal dinner and get to bed early.

This plan was well-received by all. Janet and Henry were gracious to drive us around. We dropped off  dirty clothes at a local laundromat and were off to the lighthouse. We were greeted by an all-too-familiar friend: fog. We could see some of the beauty we expected, but were disappointed nonetheless to keep encountering our vision-obscuring companion. The images below provide an idea of what we experienced.

Making our way down from Point Forchu, we picked up laundry, grabbed some lunch, got our first good look at The CAT, and then returned to the Rodd Grand. We said goodbye to our chase car drivers, Janet and Henry, who were returning to Digby to continue their vacation adventure, then retreated to our rooms at the Rodd Grand Hotel to rest. Waking up from my nap, I noticed that the fog had lifted and the sun was shining. I quickly texted the guys to see who was interested in a quick ride back to Cape Forchu to see the light unobstructed by fog. Much to our dismay, as we drove up to the cape, we found fog again to be the order of the day. Oh, well.... we made the best of the situation. In my haste to leave the hotel, I left both of my cameras in the room - so the pictures I captured were taken with my trusty iPhone 7 Plus. I was less than happy with myself.

Downtown Yarmouth

Our first look at our ride back to the States

You can't pay attention to signs like this one and get the good views!

Dinner to cap off our day made for a very short riding day, but the rest was welcome and served to prepare us all for the long days to come as we set our sites on home.

Last day using the Garmin Zumo 665 with kilometers as the unit of measure.
That top speed of 16s would be impressive is MPH instead of KPH!