The little outboard motorboat sped across the waters of Lennox Passage toward a small treeless island about three kilometres from where we launched.
In case you are not sure, Lennox Passage is the long, narrow body of water that separates...
Located between Mabou and Inverness is a small range of hills known as the Mabou Highlands.
They make up an oval-shaped pattern about 10 miles long and six miles wide. The tops of the hills range up to 1,000 feet...
I’m sitting on my veranda having a cool drink and watching the round bales of hay pop out of the baler in the field across the way near St. Margaret’s Church in West Bay Road. Am I wishing to...
Chedabucto Bay is a large body of water that separates the southeastern tip of Cape Breton from the mainland of Nova Scotia. It is bordered by Isle Madame and Richmond County on the Cape Breton side and Guysborough County...
Jutting out into Ingonish Bay and dividing the bay into two distinct parts, the North and South bay, is a rocky finger of land known as Middle Head.
Almost three kilometres long, its rocky cliff shorelines are constantly waging a...
Six o’clock in the morning on the streets of Venice, Italy, a strange sound coming behind me caught my attention. A man marching, carrying and playing some sort of bagpipe came into view. Under his arm, a large inflated...
The season is almost over. Have you had your feed of Atlantic Canada’s best delicacy or are you one of the unfortunate few who have a problem eating shellfish?
The season that began on the first of May on the...
On July 8, 1773, a rickety 20-year-old Dutch ship left Loch Broom on the west coast of Scotland with 189 displaced Highland Scots on board seeking a new life in the wilderness of eastern Canada.
Like some of the vessels...
The sun was shining bright, the temperature wasn’t too cold, and it was a great day for a late winter drive.
The topic at Tim Horton’s was often about the amount of snow on the Cape Breton Highlands and how...
A couple of summers ago on a trip to Baddeck, I decided to re-visit the Uisge Ban waterfall.
By following the road on the west side of the Baddeck River, it didn’t take long to get to the Department of...