This plush lobster toy is hitching rides with Canadians to travel from the Maritimes to Alberta

A plush lobster toy named Lucky, along with this full-sized lobster cage, is hitching rides with strangers to travel from Prince Edward Island to Alberta.

Albertans Chris and Karen McCallum got the plush lobster in Prince Edward Island while visiting the province. Because the lobster cage he came with was too big for them to bring back on their flight, they posted a video to YouTube asking strangers to help get Lucky to their home.

Since then, Lucky has amassed nearly 20,000 followers on TikTok.

Elizabeth Beattie was one of those Tiktok followers, and decided to pick him up, along with the lobster cage, in Tobermory, Ont.

"I met Paul and his family and two children and they handed Lucky off to me so that he could continue his adventures on Manitoulin Island," she said.

Before Lucky came into her possession she said he had already been up the CN Tower, received an exam from a veterinarian and won a stock car race.

On Manitoulin Island, she brought him to visit five of the seven First Nations in the area, and also took him to Bridal Veil Falls, a popular tourist attraction.

Beattie drove Lucky to Sudbury, where she met Theresa Handrigan at the Big Nickel tourist attraction.

"It's always been a little bit of a dream of mine to participate in something like this, like a community effort to achieve a goal," Handrigan said.

"I heard about like teddy bears when I was a kid trying to make it to all 50 States and things like that."

Handrigan was planning to take Lucky on a trip to Sleeping Giant Provincial Park near Thunder Bay, Ont.

"We're hoping to maybe meet somebody at Sleeping Giant Provincial Park or the Terry Fox Memorial that is continuing the journey west and can take Lucky closer to his home," she said.