Near Truro (Oct. 3)
Although we always mean to get off to an early start, we almost always end up talking to other campers as we pack and end up leaving around noon. Today was no different.
We basically retraced our route back towards Truro. Because of the extra day in Cape Breton, we are camping for a night to break the trip, but not stopping to see anything. We did not even detach the car from the camper.
I mentioned the red roads on the way to Cape Breton, but until the return trip, I did not notice the green roads. I believe this is due to a different form of iron oxidization.
I did see a real moose day. I mentioned that this is the first day of hunting season. This moose, which was large and had a full rack of antlers, was unfortunately upside down in the bed of a truck that passed us. Clearly one of the lucky moose license lottery winners had been doubly lucky and got his moose on this first day out. We are still hoping to see a live moose some day. I remind myself that the moose population has grown to the point where culling is necessary.
We stayed overnight in a campground en route. It was on a pretty little stream. Their wifi was down, so I went to their recreation hall which has a wifi hotspot to have my meeting with my student. The rec hall turned out to have the largest book exchange we have seen – more like a library. In the morning we exchanged 7 books and are now well supplied with reading material.
The leaves are beginning to turn, so the scenery en route was colorful. We are still looking out for a live moose – plenty of habitat but no moose.
To get to the Fundy National Park we had to take a side road for 42 km. This was a bit exciting with the RV, although of course when we got to the campground it was full of campers as big or bigger. We are just steps from an overlook onto the Bay of Fundy. More about that in the next posting.