The autumn colour season is just about over.
We were all expecting that the colours might be not as good as other years because of the dry summer season, but in places, they are as brilliant as ever. Now it...
At 9:30 Wednesday morning were on our way to the Cape Breton Highlands.
A stop in Whycocomagh for coffee and cinnamon rolls (our morning fix) and it was down the Trans-Canada Highway to the Red Barn near Nyanza, three or...
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...
The Bras d’Or Lake is often referred to as one lake when, in fact, it has have several smaller bays and basins and one large portion, as well as a smaller one.
The two larger sections of the Bras d’Or...
The beach season is just upon us and what a season it should be. The heat is here and the swimming season is underway.
The ocean is starting to warm up nicely (the Gulf of St. Lawrence) and will be...
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...
In central Cape Breton, Lake Ainslie stretches its triangular shape out towards the north.
In the northeast corner of the river, marshes extend for the first few kilometres of its course. It flows under a two lane bridge that replaced...
What causes a person to put on a hard hat, some old clothes, and crawl and grope around in the large cavities and tight passages of a natural underground cave?
It is a question that is sometimes hard to answer....
I was standing on the bluff of the Chimney Corner road looking down on Margaree Harbour and the mouth of the Margaree River.
The new bridge loomed in the distance and the beach was covered with ice and snow. The...
I stood on the old wharf below Babin’s Hill and waited for the setting sun to produce the image that I thought might take place. I wasn’t disappointed.
There were just enough clouds to hide the sun at the horizon...