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Sea kayaking around the Cape Breton highlands

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The old Money Point lighthouse now stands proudly next to a space rocket in front of the Museum of Science and Technology in Ottawa. The new automatic light respects the traditional lighthouse architecture.
In Bay St.Lawrence, as in many other local communities, crab is driving the economy after the collapse of the traditional cod fishery.
Near Cape North, at the foot of a cliff whitened by quartz intrusions, the sea is turquoise and transparent.
 

Cormorants drying their wings just off Cape North.
An important landmark on maps, Cape North is rather unremarkable as seen from the water, except for the spectacular Highlands rising 500 m not far behind.
 

A few minutes later, Money Point sticks out into the Atlantic Ocean. All of a sudden, the water is colder and, in the distance, a dark mark outlined in white, shows that we are approaching a not so gentle sea.
 

Two km South of Money Point, a reef protects a pebble beach below a small cliff. A mass of twisted and rusting iron behind the tent marks the wreckage of the Norwegian freighter Carita in 1975 on this very reef.
Near Money Point, the remains of a fishing boat are reminders of the sea's violence against these rocks.
 

Rocks form a protection from all but the strongest seas, allowing a safe landing...
A strong North wind of 50 to 60 km/h threatened to blow the tent away. This improvised windbreaker prevented the tent from collapsing. Piles of rocks (not difficult to find) kept the whole thing from flying straight to Sydney!
 

Even if it's hard to like jelly fish, it is sad to see them washed up on the rocks. In a couple of days, like a piece of jell-O, it will literally evaporate, leaving only a few purple strands.
South of Money Point, the limestone rock is replaced by older granite cliffs - and sea caves.

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