Bent but not broken

Our last post had us on our way to Cheticamp for some hiking and sight seeing. Well we almost made it there...... We stopped at a beach along the way near Margaree Forks. There was a breakwater there that Kelly decided to checkout. It was a clear sunny day and the rocks were dry so we hopped our way out to the end.

This picture belonged on the last post  ooops.

At the end of the breakwater

The scenery was great and we watched several Lobster Fishermen returning to the harbour.

You can just see the whole in the big rock formation in the foreground

It took us about 20 minutes to work our way out on the rocks and about 2.5 hours to get back. June landed poorly on one of the rocks and fell. We think she twisted her right ankle on the rock and when falling punted another rock with her left foot.

It all happened very quickly one minute we are talking and the next Kelly turns around and there is no June. I knew we were in trouble when I got June righted and sitting and she said "I've done some damage". We spent the next 2 hours with June sliding on her rear end from rock(Boulders really) to rock as she was unable to put any weight on her left foot and her right one was starting to swell. Once we got to the beach Kelly flagged down a fellow tourist from Quebec City and we carried June up the beach and over the sand dune to his car. The truck was parked about 200 yards away up a hill so our Great Samaritan drove us up the hill. There is a general store right where the the truck was parked and the owner called the local towns to see which hospital was open and could X-ray Junes foot. We ended going back to Invernes and went straight to the emergency department. Hospitals on Saturday of the long weekend are the same all over Canada busy and under staffed. It took us about 10 minutes to get to an exam room and about 4 hours to find out that the were some hairline fractures on June's left foot. The on-call doctor told us to call his office on Tuesday after the Radiologist took a look. So it was back to Port Hood for a couple days of Tylenol 3s and rest.

We left Port Hood on Tuesday and by 3 pm we had the results from the Radiologist. "No fractures or dislocation no cast needed." This was good news so we decided to continue the trip. June has proven once again that she is one tough woman. If it had been me I would have been crying like a baby waiting for the helicopter to come and get me.

We have good internet here so there will be another post or two to get caught up.

Take Care

Junkel