I know that you wanna be Canadian
Hope this sticks in your head all day on Canada Day – whether you are Canadian or a wannabe.
Snapping turtle street wise?
This cannot be a good survival strategy. Snapping turtles lay eggs in June and July uphill from a water source. This snapper has found some gravel right by the side of the road, a foot or two from the pavement. The water source, as you can see in the picture, is a human-excavated pond some [...]
Cooking blog from Berwick
Jenny Osburn of the Union St. Café in Berwick has a great new blog, Kitchen Witch – the secret ingredient is love. She’s interesting, funny, and has a great recipe in every post. Don’t just visit her blog, though. Go eat! The restaurant which she started with her mother, sister and aunt a decade ago [...]
Nova Scotia t-shirt still a favourite
This is the “Kid’s light Nova Scotia T-shirt” from the CafePress shop behind the “Gift Shop” link above, in ash grey. Here it is after lots of washings, still looking good and still a favourite. If you’re in the US, ordering clothing from CafePress is fine, but if you’re ordering from Canada, you have to [...]
Mahone Bay Regatta 2010
The Mahone Bay Classic Boat Festival, formerly known as the Mahone Bay Wooden Boat Festival, isn’t happening this year, but a new group has come together to present the Mahone Bay Regatta on the same weekend. So if you’re used to making a trip to one of Nova Scotia’s most scenic towns at that point [...]
Flowers in the fog
Fog is really neat. I’ve been mesmerized by it out on the ocean on a sailboat, where it becomes your whole world – but that’s another blog post. The other morning after the fog moved in, I was startled by the colours of the flowers. It was partly the contrast between the saturated colour close [...]
Getting your Pleasure Craft Operator Card
We moved to the South Shore of Nova Scotia for the sailing, essentially. Lots of folks here have boats. There are kayaks, runabouts, sleek motor cruisers built for speed, a few “trawlers” (non-planing motor cruisers), fishing boats converted into pleasure boats, “personal watercraft” (sea-doos), small and medium-sized sailboats of all vintages, some wooden, and more [...]
