This site is about my love for traveling, hiking, wildlife and photography in Newfoundland & Labrador.
Terra Nova National Park, established in 1957, is Canada’s most easterly National Park with 400 square kilometres of pristine wilderness. It is where dense boreal forests, rugged headlands, sheltered coves and inlets meet the Atlantic Ocean. The coastlines finger-like landscape provides a recreational haven for boaters and water activity enthusiasts. The atmosphere of the park […]
Read More TERRA NOVA NATIONAL PARKOn October 5th I boarded the ferry at Pilley’s Island to make my way to Lushes Bight, Beaumont and Beaumont North in order to check off the last three places on my list. What list was this? A list to visit every place on the island of Newfoundland. For many years I have travelled this […]
Read More LONG ISLAND – (Lushes Bight/Beaumont/Beaumont North) … Last But Not Least!I have travelled a lot, from one corner of the earth to the other, but with the Covid-19 Pandemic still in full swing (18 months in) I decided to focus my travels in my own backyard and complete the island of Newfoundland, visiting every inhabited community, by car, ferry or foot. This is my story […]
Read More ST. BRENDAN’S – (A Newfoundland Island Settlement Hanging On By A Thread)This summer was my first visit to Fogo Island and Change Islands. I really had no pre-conceived notions of what to expect, other than it being known world-wide as “Iceberg Alley” from the myriad of migrating icebergs every spring, the famous Fogo Island Inn and numerous hiking trails. One thing I did take away from […]
Read More FOGO ISLAND & CHANGE ISLANDS – (Preserving The Past)(August 2021) La Poile is an isolated fishing village located on the South Coast of Newfoundland. It is inaccessible by road and is serviced by Inter-Provincial Ferry MV Challenge One from Rose Blanche. GETTING THERE Getting to La Poile is no easy task. It is not a place you just happen to pass through. It […]
Read More LA POILE – (A Remote Newfoundland Settlement)(August 2021) Gaultois and McCallum are isolated fishing settlements on the south coast of Newfoundland and Labrador, in the area known as the Coast of Bays. Getting There To visit these unique outports you have to travel southbound on Route 360, the Bay d’Espoir Highway, to Hermitage, where you take a passenger-only ferry. There are […]
Read More GAULTOIS & MCCALLUM – (Isolated Outports of Newfoundland’s South Coast)CONNE RIVER, a First Nations Reserve, is located in southern Newfoundland’s beautiful Coast of Bays. The residents of Conne River call themselves Miawpukek Mi’kmaq, the word Miawpukek meaning ‘Middle River’. Established as a Federal Indian Reserve in 1987, the first in the province, Miawpukek is a prosperous, vibrant community steeped in strong aboriginal cultures and […]
Read More CONNE RIVER – (Miawpukek First Nation)Day 2, 4:00am, we awake from our comfy hotel sleep at the Albatross in Gander and don our hiking boots and lightly layered clothes as temperatures have been peaking at 30 degrees for the past week. With pre-daylight hours offering the coolest temps we waste no time and opt for a quick Tim’s coffee and bagel […]
Read More A Hike Back To 1946 – (The Sabena Airlines Plane Crash, 35KMS SW of Gander Lake)It is the rule we all remember from childhood “never talk to strangers”. Embedded in our brain is the idea that something horrific could happen if one chooses to talk to, or approach, a stranger. Yet, if you’re someone like me who believes people are generally kind-hearted, conversing with a stranger is a perfectly normal and innocent thing to do. There is something warmly intriguing about talking to someone who is a story untold; someone who has no preconceived notions of who I am or what I’m about.
Read More “I Don’t Hike With Strangers, They’re Just Friends I Haven’t Met Yet”10 years ago today you came to me, yet I knew not what you were You knocked me down, pressed my face hard into the ground with your excruciating weight upon my back I stood up, placed my feet humbly back on the ground You shoved me hard I shoved you back I hid You found […]
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Where My Boots Have Been 