In Newfoundland, there is one simple question that brings people together on the beach, and on the Capelin Calendar, a question that defies time as it echoes through the ages: Are the capelin rolling? After a bit of a wait, the answer is a resounding Yes b’y, yes they are! This weekend many of you saw them roll in places like Torbay, […]
In my previous post I asked what you could possible want from your hike after you’ve already been blessed with great weather and beautiful scenery. It was a rhetorical question of course, but even they deserve an answer sometimes, and my answer is ‘whales’. In the summer time, expecting to see a whale on your hike is more than wishful thinking, in fact I’ve […]
That’s right, kryptonight! I guess I could have also gone with kryptonice, because that’s what you’re looking at: glowing chunks of ice on Middle Cove beach. As I like to say on a cold winter day: pretty cool eh?
Here’s a ‘cool’ self portrait I took 3 years ago today at the big ice wall on Middle Cove beach:
Some lovely relaxing fog this morning on the way to work: The ice wall at the east end of the beach is now a free standing structure, about to collapse:
The storm has passed and all is well, it was a severe storm elsewhere on the island but here in Torbay it swept over us in the middle of the night and didn’t even wake us up. The wind is still very strong, making it a bit chilly outside, although you wouldn’t know it looking at […]
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