Long View to St. Georges Bay

Taken 2005 June 21 from the summit of Beinn Bhiorach.

This view over the Cape Mabou Highlands gives another view of the kind of terrain the trail system traverses. Fair Alistair’s Mountain (“Beinn Alasdair Bhain”) is at the right in the middle ground in the picture and Fair Alistair’s Mountain Trail goes up to its summit in the cleft between it and the (unnamed) mountain in the foreground. Beyond, one can just barely make out the roof of the red barn on the Colindale Road that is a signpost from both the Gulf of St. Lawrence and from the Cape Mabou Highlands, where it is usually readily visible (it’s easily seen to be a red barn in the full-sized version of this photo). St. Georges Bay is beyond the land mass that lies behind and to the right of the barn; with the naked eye, it was visible as a shining patch of blue from the summit, but in this picture (even in the full-sized version), it is much more difficult to make out. Cape George is on the Nova Scotia mainland on the other side of St. Georges Bay; it is often visible from the Cape Mabou Highlands, but in this picture, it seems to be merged with a cloud bank at the horizon and even in the full-sized version of this picture I can’t clearly make it out.

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