Here are some photos from our hike of the Skyline Trail in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. There are not a ton of shots from this hike because it was toward the end of a long, rainy day of driving the Cabot Trail. The most prominent memory from this hike was that we almost got run over by an enormous male moose! It was grazing just off the main trail and we stopped along with other hikers to take a look. Some people were taking photos and the moose suddenly took off running down the trail right toward us. We bolted away from it, our lives flashing before our eyes, until the moose finally veered back off the trail and dashed off into the woods. Needless to say, I did not capture that photo! The lesson here–don’t get anywhere near a moose in the wild–we nearly learned that the very hard way. Even though we never left the trail and thought we were being responsible, we were still too close, and the crowd of people gathering clearly spooked the moose.
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Michael Rappa 