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

today togi you're gonna need a bath

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

just wanted to greet the group of hikers

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

I've only seen one from vehicle before

we're worried about the ball Togo in shame

we hadn't spotted a single moose up until then but then my dad saw something

moving in between the trees oh wow I got it I filmed it oh my god I think it

might come out no oh I got a great shot right now yeah I got it face

we spend the rest of the afternoon exploring the national park and then

call it a day and drove back to the barn for some dinner so guys after a busy

afternoon I don't know if we mentioned but we were able to swat a moose Wow

wasn't that amazing at that time we saw the first Canadian very elusive Canadian

moose very elusive Canadian moose especially in the summer they like to

chill out and the swamp by the lake yeah I'd like to do that kind of activity

yeah get away from the fly is exactly what it was funny because we were

walking in the middle of the trail you have to see a lake and we were coming

back and I turned my hand like that and I saw something funny looking far away

between the pine tree yeah and it turned out that this guy was spotted it it was

about maybe I don't know what 10 feet from the edge of the forest yeah inside

right yeah he just kept seeing his head going

up and down down massive massive was but anyways they've told us that in the

afternoon beginning of the late afternoon in the evening you know we can

see them at a couple of places yeah so we're gonna drive there especially if

you try to capture them yeah they're nocturnal animals so they do come out at

night yeah and the goal is for us to go around

sunset and visit a couple different spots yeah and we've talked to now like

probably three or four people have had luck doing this yes I've seen them in

the late afternoon yeah but but if worse comes to worse I thought I think at

least we got one on it on record no you've got to see your first there by

now okay so far away yeah but yeah we had a good time we went out of this

coven this morning around 8:30 yep now we're back is 4 4 o'clock in the

afternoon we've only had a little bit of a breakfast we are starved oh yeah so

we're cooking here a beautiful sauce we're gonna eat spaghetti da y espagueti

and we're cooking a sauce here that has red hot sausage Italians hey guys check

this out check out the bubbling goodness oh it's got tons of we put a whole pack

of mushrooms in there - sausage sausage screams scallops oh it's good everything

in life scallops mushrooms Oh Italian hot sauce uh-huh it's amazing okay let

me go wine wine after having the sauce if we encounter black bear and it comes

for us I'll be willing to wrestle this sauce is gonna give you such a strength

and such a force that I'm not afraid of the black bear what what more can you

ask for we had a beautiful beautiful day today not one cloud in the sky okay no

one person on the trail no basically trails and we were the only people

walking around those places you know like I mean wilderness there's a couple

more famous trails but we purposely didn't do them we wanted to just have

that kind of exclusive experience out in nature and we got it I'd say for about

75 or 80 percent of the time we were out there we didn't see anyone and when we

did just a quick hello passing by yeah and that's it that was it

and on top of that look you got the ocean you got the mountain you got

forests you got creeks coming down the mountain with this water that is

pristine crystal-clear you know like I mean this is as close of paradise as you

can get on earth yeah let's put it away it's amazing

if you have a chance guys the Cabot Trail come and visit different enemy

Britain you've got you've got a giant island and not that many people here and

now it's time to eat spaghetti is it this year all too familiar with yeah

when we were a young I guess we had eight kids in our family and just one or

just our dad was working yeah we gave two other nicknames - spaghetti yeah and

one of them was Skyy Betty and the other one was biscuity all the same same name

you know sometimes my mom would make special

meatballs or to put it but most of it was meat and veggies okay all right

spaghetti at the table yeah I see food meat no spicy Italian pork sausage

stop hungry after all baking we forgot to bring more snacks yeah what do you

think it's delicious better than Skyy Betty and biscuity it's

right up there with spaghetti really like I think what unity when you are

this hungry is anything anything will taste great but these one is really good

we got another reinforcement yeah these one game we called the cavalry the

girl the girl came to reinforce the deranged

so we are back in the car it is now 806 sunset is just before 9:00 p.m. and we

are going in search of moose we are driving around we met some people who

told us if we drive around the area of plateau and shetty camp we might just

spot moose they were very lucky we were also told you can see them in the park

but that's a really long drive from where we're staying so we're gonna try a

lot people those two little towns and see how it goes the Sun is starting to

go down yeah maybe the Moose will be feeling

like an evening stroll oh yeah that is the goal and look who else came along

in retrospect this outing wasn't such a good idea we didn't see any moose the

dog got super anxious and only after sundown did we realize that the rows

around here have almost no streetlamps so we wouldn't recommend driving at

night

the next morning was another early day this time we plan to drive along the

east side of the island

good morning we are back on the road here on the cabot trail having some Tim