Kayaking in Cape Breton

The ice is melting! We are getting the gear ready for another big season out on the water. We hope to spend a lot of time sleeping on the cobble beaches and coastal pastures out around the cape this year. There is nothing like the roar of the surf to lull tired muscles to sleep. Of course I think there is nothing like hot coffee waiting for me when I awake from my sea soothed sleep, and you can be sure Michael is good for that (early morning hot hot coffee). We hope to take a lot of you folks out for one, two or even five nights on the wilds of the cape breton highlands coast....everyone loves the line, it really does fit: where the mountains meet the sea, it's like a slightly shorter banff dumping right into the north atlantic...which is a sea of icebergs at the moment. Ah yes, not much for kayaking in just yet, but home to a lot of birthing seals, seals which have for the time being stayed out of sight on the moving ice packs from Cape bretons two token sealing boats (we did get a disproportionately large amount of CBC airtime, for the actual number of boats-2-sealing from cape breton). There are several seal colonies around Cape North, the big bulls will howl and moan to passing kayaks, while others will chase along behind. But don't worry, everyone (kayaker and seal) eats their lobster suppers separately! And so back to the sap collections for now (30 litres of golden maple syrup made so far....the birch trees will be running next up, Michael thinks he watched the first drop flow from one big golden birch today under a suprising burst of warm sunshine).