Miscou Island

802 August 13, 2022 Miscou Island

I took a walk this morning in Grande-Anse but the highlights of my walk were a phone conversation with mom and a FaceTime call with David and his boys.

Just a couple of pictures this morning.

The visitor center has a picnic area deisigned as a lobster trap. Lobster is really a big deal here!

We traveled today another 60 miles east to Miscou Island. It was a pretty drive through forest, along the coast, and through small villages. We stopped to walk at a park in Shappagan.

These boats are in drydock. The lobster and crab seasons are finished for this year.

Once we had set up camp, we took the Jeep and went for a ride to see Miscou Island. We walked the boardwalk through the peat bog. This was really interesting to me. I first of all did not know that peat is harvested. It is used primarily for potting soils but also as a fuel for cooking and heating. This bog is protected. Bogs occur in depressions in the surface of the earth. They fill with rainwater. They are particularly acidic and only certain plants will thrive here.

Because carnivorous plants get most of their nutrition from insects, they have adapted to live in bogs where the nutrients are otherwise very poor. These pitcher plants are currently in bloom…so very cool!

We drove further to the end of pavement. Here we saw the lighthouse.

We walked a mile on the beach and then sat for a while on a log before heading back. There were very few other people and most of the time, we had the beach to ourselves.