In the Woods

We’re staying at Kejimkujik National Park in central Nova Scotia. The campground is huge but the sites are spaced apart.

Although there are 360 campsites in the area, what you mostly see are trees.

Our Starlink is sitting at the front of the site trying to find satellites in the bit of sky over the park road. It’s doing well considering how obstructed the view is, so hopefully this will get posted.

Today may be the only day we’re here when it’s not raining. I wanted to try to walk the Hemlocks and Hardwoods Trail so we did that this morning. This time I hoped to see some old growth trees. We were taken aback by another full parking lot but people might have been canoeing. We met only two other couples and those when we were almost done with the loop.

We got to see the old growth hemlocks; this is the oldest, about 400 years old.

I used a wide angle lens to try to capture the whole tree, but still couldn’t quite make it.

There was a large grove of them; the trail here was a boardwalk to protect their roots. Notice how small Bud and Matey are compared to these giants.

It was a wonderful place.

A huge old hemlock went down here creating this clearing in the woods. That’s its root ball just to the right of Bud.

It was a great trail. Matey made the whole three mile loop.

And in the parking lot on the way out I saw my first ever license plate from the Northwest Territories.

Even if it rains and with intermittent internet I am liking my time on the edge of Kejimkujik Lake in the woods.