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...
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...
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...
Our flight takes us down the valley of the South West Margaree River.
At Margaree Forks, the North East Margaree River joins in and we turn slightly westward, following the combined Margaree Rivers. We fly over the “Big Intervale” past...
The Mira River abounds with picturesque scenery and stories connected with the early days of the French regime at Louisbourg. These were the thoughts of C.W. Vernon who wrote about Cape Breton at the turn of the 20th century.
For...
On my way to Tim Horton’s for my morning coffee and Timbits for Missy and Molly, my eye caught a strange black and white shape at the roadside.
Slowing down, I noticed it was a young, immature seal a long...
Much of the landforms of Cape Breton are made up of hard resistant plateaus such as those of Northern Cape Breton.
The edges are steep and drop abruptly to the sea or to deep river valleys and ravines. Many of...
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...
Some years ago I started photographing old houses and barns wherever I traveled.
After hundreds of photos, I realized that there were many different types, varying in size, shape, materials used, and the culture of the community in which they...
A long thin ribbon of sand, gravel and rocks make up part of Cape Breton’s shoreline on the north end of the Strait of Canso.
This gravel/rock bar of approximately three kilometres is quite a natural feature that can be...