dickandbrigitteontheroad: Puffin Trip

Today is Saturday and it was another busy day for us. Rained again last night and the ground is more then soggy now. A 5th wheel just came in and made about an 8 in deep rut along side of our trailer. We will be moving on again tomorrow, providing I can stay on solid land, to Halifax a little over 200 miles. GG did laundry this morning then after that we went on the boat trip. It was out of English Town north of Baddeck as Baddeck is on an inland lake. Lindsey said this is one of her favorite places. We went on Donelda’s Puffin Boat Tours to Bird Island. We saw lots of Bald Eagles, I would say over 20, hundreds of Puffins, Black Guillemots, Gulls, Great Black Backed Gulls, Cormorants, a lot of those, Great Blue Herons, Northern Gannets, Idler ducks and seals. The seals were in the water and would poke there heads up once in awhile along side of the boat only a couple were up on the rocks. We did not see any whales but they said occasional they do on the north side of the island. It was too rough to go on that side and the boat is rather small, 40 passengers at most. Half way around the Cabot Trail there is a village called Pleasant Cove that has whale watch tours. If you don’t see any you get your money back. But the trip we took was a 1st class trip well put together by a local couple. She gave us a lot of information about the area and the birds we saw on the way out and on the way back, a lot of information about lobster trapping. They are also lobster trappers. Starting at 4 in the morning and also running 3 puffin trips. Lobsters have to be 1 pound and it takes 5 years to grow that big, they also molt once a year and the season ended on July 15th. Lobsters can be kept for a year in pounds, individual shoe box size wire cages, where they are kept in hibernation form. Cool water is run over them along with cool air. So there you have it a short lesson on lobsters. She said there is no cod fishing here and that when the cod fishing is bad, lobster fishing is good also the reverse is true and it runs in cycles. Night is falling now and campfires are going, dogs being walked, and it’s not raining. Lindsey and GG are playing games so I guess I’ll call it a night for now.