Accommodations Nova Scotia
Your Guide To Accommodations In Nova Scotia
Meat Cove, Nova Scotia
Meat Cove, a tiny hamlet
at the very tip of Cape Breton
Island, offers a wonderful camping
experience on a cliff edge above
where the Gulf of St. Lawrence and
the Atlantic Ocean meet.
Whether a visitor or a camper,
you will be surrounded by the sound
of the sea beating at the rock cliffs
and by the calling of seagulls and
by the wind coming down from the
surrounding mountains.
Remote as it appears to be,
Meat Cove is wired to the modern
world through a C@P site where
visitors can check or send e-mail, or
surf for information from the world
beyond Meat Cove, but why would
you when you are immersed in an
environment composed of ocean,
mountains, trails, and the rugged
beauty of Cape Breton Highlands?
Meat Cove has camping
and lodging facilities, a full menu
restaurant in the C@P site, and the
recently opened Ocean View Lodge.
The very name of the place
carries within it legends of the past.
Was it slaughtered animals in casks
of salt coming ashore from a ship
which went down in the turbulent
North Atlantic waters, or was it the
abundant supply of moose and
caribou in the early days which gave
this place its name? Stories vary, but
the cove is still there.
Although the caribou are gone,
moose may still be seen, as well as
the white-tailed deer. It is a place
apart both in its geography and in its
aura.
