Cape Breton- Part 2

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Carnivorous plants! Just before dusk, we did the bog hike. Plants that live in nitrogen poor bogs turn the tables on the typical direction of consumption. This is the flower of a pitcher plant. Insects that land on the slippery pitcher shaped leaves may tumble down the inner walls where downward pointing hairs and rainwater prevent escape.

The bladderwort catches aquatic insects in tiny underwater bladder-traps. The touch of an insect triggers the trap and the bladder sucks the insect inside.

This plant may not be carnivorous, but it is pretty nonetheless. I did not see any sundews, although they are reported to be in the area.

Fire in the sky. This is not a forest fire, just the sun setting through the trees.

The coast at dusk.

Another view.

The hills near dawn.

Heather in the Garvock ancestral mansion/maison? This “Lone Shieling is a reconstruction of a crofters’ (tenant farmer) summer home in the Western Scottish highlands. The sign says that “Fragrant pallets of heather or bracken covered the stone bunks.” Professor Donald S. MacIntosh donated the land with the request that “the Government of the province will maintain a small park at the Intervale and will built there a small cabin which will be constructed in the same design or plan as the lone shieling on the Island of Skye, Scotland.”

A Whale of a tale

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