Name: Cape Breton Travel Guide | Cabot Trail Road Trip in Nova Scotia, Canada
Uploaded: 2020-10-15T21:00:24.000Z
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in today's video we continue our road trip through the Canadian Maritimes this

time visiting Cape Breton a large island in Nova Scotia that is

separated from the mainland by the Strait of kanso during our visit we

stayed in a converted barn hike the trails of the Cape Breton Highlands and

drove around 300 kilometers on the world-famous cabot trail that borders

the island we hope you enjoy this trip and now let's go explore Cape Breton

our first date kicked off early with the drive up to key breton highlands

national park this is a park that can be accessed from either the east side or

west side of the island we entered from the west side just past shetty camp okay

well good morning guys today we are kicking off the second

portion of our road trip we started up in New Brunswick spent a few days there

hiking driving around and now we've arrived in Nova Scotia specifically

Capon what we're gonna be spending the next three days and yeah yesterday was a

long day of driving I should introduce our gang we have George Sam's dad my mom

me lad my dad Daniel you've seen him Togo and yeah today we're gonna be

hiking we're in cape breton highlands national park but before that let's talk

a little bit about yesterday's drive here cuz we didn't really film too much

didn't we okay yes the drive it was a long long drive you know yeah it's all

day you know people you can only realize how big this country is when you start

driving so what are we doing right now well we're going hiking and we chose

this trail it's called lubuto and there's a chance we might see moose here

check this out yes got a sign yeah with a picture of a moose apparently they

like to hang out here we want to find the elusive kind of that moose that's a

one we're after we hope that the moose is loose don't forget to bring some

repellent because this is mosquito on black fly season we donated blood in New

Brunswick and because they sucked us dry almost yeah it's a little bit less will

be made in here too you know so be prepared for that

this particular hike had a steep incline at the start but it then leveled out and

we were rewarded with ocean views and shaded forests

this has been a really fun walk so far we're letting togi lead the way he

decided to go left when the trail split but really it's a loop he'll be coming

back round the other way but we also just passed an interesting information

point that was talking about the inhabitants of this area of the park

because there were actually five families who lived here before this was

turned into cape breton highlands national park and it has the names of

the families and it says that as we walk along this trail we should be able to

see what's left over of the the family homes the ruins essentially so we're

gonna keep our eyes peeled and see if we can spot these homes also we chose a

very easy trail this one's only 35 no 30 30 to 45 minutes I think it's said and

it's a loop so it's an easy one to start off with and who knows maybe we will see

moose alright guys so here directly behind we have the ruins of what's left

of one of the five homes and here you have a little sign with information the

name of the family this one was Leblanc and they had nine children so quite a

large family and apparently there are five of these homes here in this section

of the park so hopefully we'll see those so we just saw another cool information

point here on this trail and it was talking about how the women in these

five families who lived in this part of the park they would split up the tasks

like their daily tasks of what they had to do so things like kneading bread and

washing laundry and churning butter and each woman would be assigned one job and

do it for all five families just to make things a bit more efficient so yeah

there was a sense of community and really helping each other out

I kind of have to do that to survive when you're this isolated I mean I

couldn't imagine only five families in this forest hmm and it's getting quite

muddy and swampy along here Togo has decided to roll around in the mud and

get all dirty to fight the mosquitos he's a dirty boy

and now for the funniest moment of the hike there were signs with bear warnings

throughout the park so I think that was on the back of everyone's mind and of

course Toto was walking up front because he insists on leading the pack well

there was a group of hikers coming from the opposite direction and when toga was

the first one to round the bend all by his lonesome self the hiker saw his

black furry face and thought he was a bear poor Togo looked really confused he

I wanted to say one thing about this Cape Breton National Park it's got so

much eye candy we've seen oh so much eye candy today that we're all going to have

to go back and wash our eyes out three times because it is exactly believable

tacular and I'm so glad that they have all these different lookout points so

that we can make our and we've only seen half of it so you've actually seen a

quarter maybe a quarter yet so I mean there's just so much left to see

yeah lievable I hope we give ourselves enough time and I hope you have enough

eye wash to make it through now for a bit of information on this drive the

cabot trail is named after john cabot or giovanni kobato an Italian navigator and

Explorer who was one of the first Europeans of modern times to reach North

America in 1497 he had been denied support for his expedition in Spain and

Portugal so he went to England where he received financial support from Henry

the seven Cabot's plan was to reach Asia by sailing west along the North Atlantic

and he estimated that his route could be shorter and faster than the one recently

discovered by Columbus the exact location of his arrival in North America

is unknown but today the route the borders key Breton is named after him

okay so this is our second stop of the day we are now at Benji's Lake this is a

short trail I believe it's 1.5 roundtrip we are seeing footprints moose tracks we

are seeing that is the second moose truck our map said that there's a good

chance of spotting moose along here this is one of the trails where they tend to

hang out it's kind of like a swampy area with forest so we'll see if we have any

luck another truck that's our third moose track the moose is around the

movies around here and fresh - fresh alright so here tracking down the moose

of course we are with the dog and we are speaking and being kind of rowdy so I

don't know if the Moose is gonna show its pace but it's gonna happen anywhere

it's gonna be here oh the other thing I wanted to mention this is this trail is

called Benji's Lake and Benji is the name of our neighbor's dog Benji is

togo's nemesis so when tow heard we're going to Benji's

Lake his face was like so dad what have we found here walking onto the lake we

have found a moose track Wow if you just get out of the shade a

little bit there okay yep these are the two front hooves like that there's their

spike like that and this is the heel pad right here yeah so it's hard to say how

big the animal is but does it appear to be fresh it's definitely fresh okay yeah

maybe we'll fall one yeah it could be we could see one in here

it's a very good possibility Wow Musa Musa Musa I've never seen one on foot

we're worried about the ball Togo in shame