Vacation Rentals Description
Cape Breton Island, world renowned for the breathtaking beauty of its windswept coastline, is holiday home to the Cabot Trail and the Cape Breton Highlands National Park, both of which offer glorious vistas, whale-watching and nature trails. In the winter, there is skiing just minutes away near Sydney. Port Morien is a quaint fishing village located along the northeast coast of Cape Breton Island, near the towns of Glace Bay and Sydney. Nearby is the Fortress of Louisbourg - the largest reconstructed 18th-century French fortified town in North America. This holiday rental cottage on Breakwater Street overlooks the harbor, alive with the comings and goings of colorful fishing boats.
The story behind this vacation rental cottage is rather unusual and interesting. My mother, world-traveler and author of two books, built a holiday log cabin in Home ville, Nova Scotia near her family, in the late 1980's. Whenever she went shopping in Glace Bay or Sydney, she drove past Port Morien. One day she noticed a "For Sale" sign next to a small old saltbox holiday cottage perched on an embankment overlooking the wharf. She couldn't believe her ears when they told her that this vacation rental cottage and lot would cost $5,000.00! Upon investigation, she found that this vacation rental cottage had been built in the late 1800's, before the time of the concrete 'frost walls' that are now routinely used to preserve the foundations of buildings. And because of zoning law changes since then, she wouldn't be allowed to take the building down and build another vacation rental cottage. But she realized that the view alone was worth the price, so she took a chance. She bought this holiday cottage, hired a house-mover to jack it up, put in a new foundation, complete with frost walls, lowered it back down and renovated the entire vacation rental cottage (while preserving much of it's personality), adding decks, a picture window, a bedroom in the attic, as well as all new plumbing and appliances.Viola! What you see are the fruits of her creative labors.
