View from Fair Alistair

Taken 2005 June 24.

I never tire of this stupendous view of the coast from Fair Alistair. Mabou Coal Mines and Finlay Point are at the right middle ground; Mabou Coal Mines Point is next point beyond. Past that, one can make out just the tip of Beaton Point (Green Point is not visible here), and then it’s across the mouth of the Mabou River to the Colindale Road shore and beyond the land mass to St. Georges Bay and beyond it to the Nova Scotia mainland near Cape George in the far distance. The red barn on the Colindale Road is visible in the full-sized version of this picture, but in this smaller one, the barn is impossible to see and the mainland is hard to separate from the horizon (Cape George itself is beyond the right edge of this picture). There is a fine sand beach at Mabou Coal Mines (barely visible in this smaller version), quite unlike the gravel beach one sees leading up to Finlay Point. Fair Alistair is a short 1.1km (.7 mile) hike from the Mabou Post Road Trail Head, though I find it a very stiff climb. The view, however, is unsurpassed on the Island and well worth the effort it takes.

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