Up just before 9h, I found a cloudy warm (+21 (70)) day outside my motel room and light rain as I left Margaree Forks for the Belle View in Belle-Côte. The rain didn’t last long, just to the East Margaree crossroad. The breakfast was excellent, though this week the fruit salad was canned, not made fresh as last week. It was raining lightly when I emerged from the Belle View. I got gas and then drove down to Belle-Côte Harbour, where I worked on Saturday’s account and took a few photos of the scene. By the time I left at 13h10, it was raining good and the temperature had dropped a bit to +20 (68).
¹ A few photos which were not posted to Facebook have been added to this account.↩
The rain stopped south of Inverness, but much of Cape Mabou was covered with mist nearly down to the road and elsewhere with swirling streamers of mist on the slopes. I got my motel room in Port Hood and inside, continued working on last Saturday’s post.
I had been invited to the wedding of Andrea Beaton to Hans Thorhauge Dam (from Denmark but now living in Montréal), at Creignish and to the reception afterwards, so I left for Creignish about 15h30 in light rain, which I ran out of before Judique, though mist and clouds covered the sides of Creignish Mountain and the Creignish Hills. I parked at the Recreation Centre and continued working on the post as Creignish Mountain became invisible in the clouds, fog, and mist. I walked up to the church about a half hour before the ceremony and took a seat near the back. The ceremony was lovely, with a radiant Andrea doing a short “happy dance” after the “I do’s” at the altar. The attendees then retired back to the recreation centre for the reception, a great spread of food and non-stop entertainment of various kinds in the tents set up outside the centre. One special event was a Danish traditional wedding dance, in which glasses of (I presume alcoholic) beverages, sweet, sour, and bitter, said to symbolize the various states of marriage, were drunk in turn as the bride and groom danced in large circles around the tent to music provided by a number of the Danish musicians in attendance. By sunset, the skies had cleared over St Georges Bay, bringing the reflections of a setting sun to grace the celebrations. In the tents, music was provided by Mairi Rankin and Wendy MacIsaac, Glenn Graham, Rodney MacDonald, and Joe MacMaster; a “session” with a number of fiddlers; and later a square dance with Troy MacGillivray. It was a magnificent celebration of a beautiful couple, to both of whom I wish all happiness and joy. I had a great time.
I left for Port Hood after midnight and not far outside of Creignish, the tire low pressure warning light came on. I stopped at a convenient driveway at the edge of the road and filled the tire with air; it was the same one that had gone flat a few days ago and was repaired. I made it back to Port Hood without the low pressure light coming on again. I had to drive to Meat Cove in the morning for the Seawall Trail fundraiser, but couldn’t see getting up at 6h as I would have had to in order to make the guided hiking tour, especially with the tire to worry about, so I went to bed at 1h, resolving to get a good night’s rest and let tomorrow take care of itself.