Cabot Trail

The Cabot Trail Acoustic Festival this July 26-28th at Cabot Shores

March 27, 2013

Are you a music lover, one who loves to play or sing or just plain watch it all happening?
The Cabot Trail has a history of great music, great musicians and there’s a whole new generation
that’s reviving acoustic roots and folk music, so we are having a Festival across generations,
one that features traditional and original music.
It’s a players and a music lovers’ festival right along the Cabot Trail, outdoors and indoors, with
concerts, open mikes, song writing and other workshops, open air jams all included.
Local artists and crafts people will be there along with local food, prepared with local ingredients, often cooked
over [...]

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Studying at Gampo Abbey

March 21, 2013

In March, we were fortunate to be invited to take part in Shedra, or monastic college, at Gampo Abbey. For two weeks we traveled to Gampo Abbey several times a week. The journey itself, a drive on the Cabot Trail through the Cape Breton Highland National Park in winter is spectacular.

More than once, we observed a moose (the same one, we believe) in almost the same location, calmly chewing and regarding us with interest.
Gampo Abbey, N. America’s only Tibetan monastery for Western students, is located off the Cabot Trail, high above the Gulf of St.Lawrence.

Under the guidance of master teachers [...]

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The Cabot Trail Relay: teams running 267km Cabot Trail May 25-26, 2013

February 24, 2013

As an individual who struggles to push themselves through those extra ten minutes on the treadmill, I’ve got an incredible amount of respect for passionate runners. Over a thousand dedicated marathon-ers flock to the highlands of Cape Breton every May to run one of “the most challanging and spectacular terrains in North America”, state the relay officials, and I have to agree with them. Cape Breton island offers a host of activities, communities of friendly folk, but most notably, are the incredible and seemingly endless one-of-a-kind views.
Two years ago I was hired as an assistant to Dr. Paul of Cabot [...]

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Still swimmng on Cape Breton–especially the Moose

September 21, 2012

Many of our guests want nothing more than to see a Cape Breton moose.

Last week during a Road Scholar Retreat, a group saw all kinds of moose skat on the path to Indian Brook–but no moose. Then, the next day, Catherine, a guest from San Francisco, came upon one.
Her husband, Nicholas, was skeptical. “Where’s the picture?” he said, only half jokingly?
Well, today, another couple, Robert and Christine (of Sydney Australia) were driving the Cabot Trail and visiting Mary Ann Falls. Just after returning to the Cabot Trail, they stopped at a pond and there it was–a moose, a big bull [...]

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Moose Viewing All Seasons at Cabot Shores along the Cabot Trail

July 4, 2012

Many guests to Cape Breton say they’d really like to see a moose.
In the same sentence, they ask: is it safe? And except for rutting season and running into one along the road while you’re driving, the moose are quite safe and tend to disappear or blend into the bush.
Seeing A Moose On The Shores of Church Pond

A few days ago, I was paddling a kayak in Church Pond with my dog Cosmo, going into an inlet and kind of daydreaming. Suddenly Cosmo started barking, and jumped into the water, swimming toward shore. I looked up and saw a big [...]

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