Salmon Museum???

We only have one or two night stops everywhere we’re staying in Cape Breton, so we set out again this morning on our way to Ingonish. We actually stopped at the local Salmon Museum right away. I didn’t even know salmon were important enough to have an entire museum dedicated to them. They’re celebrities. There was a lot of stuff about the life cycle of a salmon with migrating schedules out into the ocean and how each female has about 8000 eggs per year, 2 of which actually live long enough to breed

themselves and a lot of stuff about fishing them and how they were over fished and how poles and reels and hooks have developed over the years and the heaviest salmon to ever be caught in Margaree (501/2lbs). Our next stop was the town of

Inverness where we stopped at the beach but it was quite cold unfortunately so we went to get some coffee. Then we backtracked to go to the Glenora Whiskey Distillery, which had a tour of only 25 minutes and smelled fantastic. I learned that they can only make Scotch in Scotland because that’s the only place they have the rights.We also ate at the pub they have on the grounds where they had live music. The live music was an eight year old girl

playing a guitar very well, two older girls playing the fiddle really well and their mother playing the piano awesomely. They played a lot of Celtic music, something from the region. Afterwards we got onto the Cabot Trail a very famous thing indeed. Also very spectacular. We stopped in Chéticamp, where there really wasn’t any of anything so we just went down to the shore where the parents had a stone skipping competition. A little ways off the town is Highland National Park. We found a short hike called Le Buttereau. Along the way were plaques about the five Acadian

families that had lived there in five respective homesteads, which you can see the remains of. Each family had approximately ten children, all in houses about the size of a ferry cabin. I would know, I’m sitting in one right now. The plaques told a bit of a story, about how each family walked the few miles into Chéticamp each Sunday to go to church, usually barefoot so as not to wear out their shoes. Before a kind of carpooling system was set up for the school, the children had to walk every day, even if they were completely buried in snow. It talked about how fishing was the trade for most of the men and it used to be 1.00$ for fifty lobsters. They over fished them a tad. Along the rest of the way we stopped at a few lookouts where we picked Isaac up an

Xplorers book and we spotted a bull moose and a cow moose with her baby, which was super cool. I haven’t seen a moose in a while. When we got to the cabin in Ingonish Dad found out that all the restaurants in town stop serving at eight, so we set right back out to the Seagull, a little restaurant overlooking the sea. Right on the shore actually, which is very nice when you’re sitting on the porch. Dad and I split scallops and fish and chips for dinner with a dessert of milkshake. Isaac and I were sharing a room in the cabin with two single beds so I read my book for a bit before he came in to go to sleep and then listened to music for a while. Peace out m8s.

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