Our Vacation to the East Coast : Oat Cakes, The Green Party, and a Moose

(Installment #3 - Wednesday)
Photos and many edits to follow.

Not far down the Cabot Trail we found a campground. I believe it was called Macleod’s or something like that. While it was mainly a trailer park like all the campgrounds on the trail it had an excellent ocean view. The problem was that the ground was not level enough to have a good night sleep the tent sites were on a steep hillside. In the morning I let Michelle sleep in a bit as because the hill made sleep so unpleasant I’m sure neither she nor I got a good night sleep. I wondered down to the washroom and on my way back I ran into a guy selling traditional Scottish breakfast food out of the back of a PT Cruiser. He had oat cakes, tea, coffee, scones and a number of other things. As I was low on cash, I bought coffee tea and an oat cake to share with Michelle. After Michelle woke and sleepily munched the oat cake (which was really good) we went back down to the PT Cruiser Guy and bough another for the road. As we were buying the oat cake the sister of the guy that runs it, was talking (basically campaigning) to a bunch that had gathered at the Cruiser. This was Elizabeth May, from Ottawa, one of the candidates in the race for the leadership of the Green Party. She seems to have some good political opinions unfortunately I tend to think the green party has a few too many idealistic dreamers in it but I could be convinced to vote for them if they found some way to strengthen their party.

After a short yack on politics we headed off down the trail once again. As the trail passes Pleasant bay it cuts inland and passes a really interesting highland Bog. Michelle and I stopped and even though her cold/flu was still being a pain, we decided to hike the bog trail, which was mostly a boardwalk but very pleasant. As we were entering the trail, we saw a moose on the far edge of the bog just by the trees that hid the bog from the highway. There was a growing crowd of motorists that had pulled over to watch her through the trees. I think the moose (a cow - female moose are called cows) was getting a bit annoyed because she was gradually making her way away from the highway. We walked the rest of the bog trail and noticed a number of very interesting bog plants some that were even carnivorous bug eaters. The signs on the trail warned us to look out for moose especially around the late afternoon (which was when we arrived). As we came back to the beginning of the loop we found the moose had moved even closer to the trail we stood and watched her from no more than 20 feet away. I took a lot of really good photos (that I will blog after I scan them).

The crowd on the trail was getting larger as people from the highway pulled over and hiked up the trail to see her. Then this obnoxious fat preteen brat decided to yell and push his way off the trail to get closer and spooked her, and she headed toward the highway ditch. Luckily there was no traffic as she scooted across the road, and disappeared.

Our next stop was to be Meat Cove but that will be another installment.......