Ingonish is next in a long line of beautiful sandy beaches I have planned. I definitely overdid the beach stops. I’m craving more forest and Everest has expressed the same. I don’t mind the beaches covered in speckled pebbles and skipping stones, that’s endless entertainment. This will be our last stop inside Breton Highlands National Park.

On the way to Ingonish we stopped along a geological wonder called Green Cove, the rocks here forced that wide eyed shocked face Amy does. They were so unique and interesting that everyone is left wondering how they formed. Certainly not all rocks are like this, why are these so cool? Apparently, this is a special area with both igneous and metamorphic rock. Cracks in the rocks form a sort of plumbing system for magma. These cracks have filled in with new minerals giving the area its unique look. Ingonish stretches out in a long peninsula ending at a beautiful point covered in pine trees, our plan is to hike that in the afternoon after relaxing at the beach. We must have said it’s time to leave soon over fifty times. In the end it was dinner time and we lounged through our hike. To offset how lazy we were Amy woke up at five AM and biked to the peninsula and ran to the end and back, her pictures were a lesson to all of us about laziness. 

In the evening, a ranger came by and rounded up all the kids in the campground and organized some games and then passed out nets for a good old fashioned insect hunt. The games got intense at times after adults were invited to participate.