Aug 10 Quebec City 7:42 am ferry accross from Levis 8:21 walking old city house 71.1/2 10:40 at plains of Abraham walk around high town / citadil big catholic church firs tAnglecina Aug 11 12:30pm @ fundy NP 1:44 coppermine hike 3:30 beach Pt Wolf near low tide 6pm beach - low tide 7:15 pm hike to covered bridge Aug 12 Pt Wolf Fund NP 9:25am Waqterfall hike - Laverty Falls 11:20am finish 12:40 high tide @saltwater pool 1:10 high tide @Pt wolf covered bridge ~2pm at Pt Wolf beach Aug 13 7:30am - town of Alma low tide boats at warf 7:45am low tide @ neat beach Ian dfound hammer 8:15am Cape Enrage 5:45pm Traverse Bay beach at low tide 8:20pm beach walk Aug 14 PEI 8:20 am low tide @ becah 9:37 Victoria on the Sea lighthouse and dock - you can't go to the top of the lighthouse 12:15 high tide @ Traverse Bay 6:25pm walk across bay before low tide Aug `15 PEI NOva Soocia 8:235am Provence House Fredrickton 10am lighthouse 12:05pm Ferry to NovaSocita Aug 16 7am Cape Breton Highlands 7:35am Skyline hike, 8:50 @ end, moose, finished in 2:30 10:14 Corney Brook hike, 10:58 @falls, 11:42 done 1:30 12:04 Bog hike then several viewpoints on the road Fishing Cove, Mackenzie River Valley 1:12pm Lone Shieling 1:24 done 1:48 Pleasant Bay 2p[m whale watching ~3:45 done Pilot whales, harbour seal, eagle, cormoranth 4:40pm - amazing waves on a beach ~5pm Broad Cove campsite #125 Aug 17 7:30am Broadcove beach play 8:07 Ian and I hike Broad Cove Mtn 8:28 @top, 8:49 out 9:43 freshwater lake trail - just looked around -neat beach 10:28 Smokey Trail - mid point @12:15, picked lots of blueberries, 2pm out ~5:30 @Louisberg town - nasty night due to lights in campground in town and winds whipping tent sides, someone tried to get into the car Aug 18 9am Fortress Louisburg , drizzel , only 1/5 re-constructed, ocean risk rising sea 9:45pm pounding train, ~!Salt Springs west of New Glasgow campsite Aug 19 8:50am Halifax Nautical Museum ~1pm Point Pleasant Park beach / park 4:26pm Five Islands Prov. Park beach walk 6:30pm Red Head Trail 2.2km 1 way 6:59 lookout @endof trail Aug 20 Sunrise pictures @4:46am (Wed) @ Islands 6:51m last beach visit - sunrise on the ground saw deer \& fawns, fabbit 9:12am Parrsboro - neat rock store 12:35 - 1:52pm Partridge Island past Parrsboro then drove west Aug 21 Park des Chutes-de-la-Chaudiere Levis waterfalls
My one year old Sony DSC-WX50 failed to impress with what looked like battery issues again. The solution was to unplug the battery and re-seat it (ideally with some paper to push it into the camera to make electrical contact). I'm not wasting my money sending it back for repair again.
This trip was done with de-powered steering. I cut the power steering belt and sucked out much of the fluid, for our
2005 Toyota Echo, just before the trip. The trip was pretty well highway driving and we achieved 5.26L/100km over 6538km using 340.6L
Some rough calculations. At 33kWh/US gallon, engine efficiency of 20%; then 1L/hour = 2.2hP and 1hP = 745W. The car is about
0.55L/hour idling with power steering vs 0.5L/h without.
Unfortunately I could not compare our milage with power steering to that withing because I used our oversized winter tires, from
the previous car, for the trip (trying to wear them out) while in previous years I used tires of a different size in previous
years. The fuel savings, if they exist, can not be teased out from the usual variability I get from one tank to another.