I woke up this morning with my family aboard a sailboat at a peaceful anchorage in Mahone Bay just a couple of hours sail from home. And shared my thoughts: “We are so privileged to be doing this. Not just having the boat, but to be able to sail where we want and drop the [...]
A beautiful day begs a bike ride. We headed for Martin’s Point, which sticks out into Mahone Bay between Oak Island and Indian Point. Martin’s Point points towards the many Mahone Bay islands that we like to sail to and around. Like many coastal areas, it has a mixture of century-old homesteads, decades-old bungalows, and [...]
J.D. Irving Ltd. is selling off vast holdings of land in southwestern Nova Scotia that it has been logging. “Professional forestry management” is what they’ve been doing there, and apparently it’s not worthwhile for them to continue. The lands include whole lakes and lake systems, rivers, watersheds and huge tracts of forest land. It’s near [...]
