Super Nova Scotia: Discover amazing wildlife on a 1000 mile road trip across Canada

Super Nova Scotia: A 1,000-mile road trip through the great outdoors of Canada offers abundant wildlife - and the best lobster in the worldNeil Darbyshire's road trip begins in Nova Scotia's capital, Halifax, where he makes the tour of the great Citadel. in Ingonish Harbour, he watches a bald eagle pass about 10 feet above his head He canoes in the blue-black Bras d'Or Lake and admires a family of moose on the French Mountain Advertisement

Perched on buoys, cormorants spread their wings to dry off after an early morning breakfast. They're a striking sight, but it's always been a mystery to me why God would create a diving bird with wings that aren't airtight.

Although he makes a bizarrely entertaining sight.

This is Baddeck Harbor on Bras d'Or Lake in Nova Scotia in the Canadian Maritimes, where a weathered lighthouse in the foreground; small, slender yachts motionless on calm dead water; trees dressed in their red and gold autumn finery.

Dawn has just broken and I'm sitting on a bench watching the rising sun clear a shroud of light nighttime mist of blue-black water.

Pure: Neil Darbyshire embarks on a 1,000 mile road trip around Nova Scotia, s stopping along the way to spot bald eagles flying over Ingonish Harbor (above)

Everyone has their precious memories of travel - places or experiences that somehow touch what W.B. Yeats called "the deep core of the heart." For me, it's right up there. A few hours later, things are much less dreamy. I'm on this same water in a canoe - and it's not a pretty sight.

The preliminary conversation with Michelle, my incredibly healthy instructor at the 'Inverary Resort, that's how it goes.

Michelle: 'Have you...

Super Nova Scotia: Discover amazing wildlife on a 1000 mile road trip across Canada
Super Nova Scotia: A 1,000-mile road trip through the great outdoors of Canada offers abundant wildlife - and the best lobster in the worldNeil Darbyshire's road trip begins in Nova Scotia's capital, Halifax, where he makes the tour of the great Citadel. in Ingonish Harbour, he watches a bald eagle pass about 10 feet above his head He canoes in the blue-black Bras d'Or Lake and admires a family of moose on the French Mountain Advertisement

Perched on buoys, cormorants spread their wings to dry off after an early morning breakfast. They're a striking sight, but it's always been a mystery to me why God would create a diving bird with wings that aren't airtight.

Although he makes a bizarrely entertaining sight.

This is Baddeck Harbor on Bras d'Or Lake in Nova Scotia in the Canadian Maritimes, where a weathered lighthouse in the foreground; small, slender yachts motionless on calm dead water; trees dressed in their red and gold autumn finery.

Dawn has just broken and I'm sitting on a bench watching the rising sun clear a shroud of light nighttime mist of blue-black water.

Pure: Neil Darbyshire embarks on a 1,000 mile road trip around Nova Scotia, s stopping along the way to spot bald eagles flying over Ingonish Harbor (above)

Everyone has their precious memories of travel - places or experiences that somehow touch what W.B. Yeats called "the deep core of the heart." For me, it's right up there. A few hours later, things are much less dreamy. I'm on this same water in a canoe - and it's not a pretty sight.

The preliminary conversation with Michelle, my incredibly healthy instructor at the 'Inverary Resort, that's how it goes.

Michelle: 'Have you...

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