Saturday Snapshots–Joe’s Scarecrows

Two years ago as we followed the Cabot Trail on our east coast vacation, we saw some of the most interesting sites.

Just before Cheticamp on the Cabot Trail on the western side of the island stood this field with scarecrows. They represented people in the communities and well-known personalities.

A message on a sleeve tells a story

Scarecrows join hands in a circle, the adults and the little people.

We could get our photo taken as one of them …

and my friend who was travelling with us chose this scarecrow.

  We could  join some of the scarecrows on a bike trek along the Cabot trail, so I thought I’d go along for the ride.

We walked around the circle trying to guess the famous ones and I think we got a few right. Apparently there had been trouble with vandalism and some scarecrows had to be recreated or repaired.

They’re out in that open field, exposed to the weather and the wind coming in off the ocean. Just in a field by the road.

As we were leaving we saw that the field was for sale. What’s happened to the scarecrows? Does anyone from Cape Breton know? What storyteller will tell this tale?

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Photos by C. Wilker

Saturday’s Snapshots

On the Cabot Trail

My husband took this photo when we toured Cape Breton last summer. The mist was just lifting from the highlands as he caught this view.

 

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Beautiful Cape Breton– a few more places

Here’s a few more photos from  our tour of the Cabot Trail in Cape Breton.

Black Brook Beach

I found out how cold that Atlantic water is when I walked along the water’s edge.

Green Cove

Green Cove, rocks and vegetation

Lots of these flowers out east and especially at Green Cove. They look like wild roses.

A pretty place in Cape Breton– Neil’s Harbour

Just some photos of a pretty place with sparkling water under the summer sun and boats sitting by the dock in the protected harbour.