After seeing some tides and roaming the Cabot Trail, I’ll be back in Halifax tomorrow. Here are some key Cape Breton notes and observations.

– Nova Scotia looks a lot like Ontario.
– compared to Ontario, their tourism info centers are so helpful.
– small town Nova Scotians are much more comfortable with minorities than small town Ontarians. don’t ask me why.
– small towns are just too boring. as much as I love being with nature, I really am a city boy, in so many ways. or at least, I need to be relatively close to a city.
– and it is impossible to be a vegetarian out here, even just on weekdays.
– the Moon doesn’t get enough respect
– geocaching is so much harder when you don’t have a map!
– wild raspberries and blueberries everywhere, for no good reason — best ever.
– I wish I could draw — maybe I’ll look into that.
– in our globalized world, even restaurants in the maritimes use frozen seafood from god-knows-where (unless you look carefully, which of course I do).
– whenever you ask a server here to recommend something, for some reason they recommend the most bland thing on the menu. I just don’t get it.
– there are no words to describe what it feels like to watch a fin whale do its thing as it plunges in and out of the water while it feeds from the ocean floor. this one thing probably deserves its own post.
– full disclosure: I love whales