admin | September 25, 2011
Weekend Walkabout —————————————————————————————————— Buck Park, Magdalen Islands or ‘Parc Buck, Iles de la Madeleine’ starts off with a stop at the kiosque to learn more about the park, why it was created, some of the plant and animal life found there and the description of the park.At almost every turn, there is a park bench [...]
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admin | September 14, 2011
While sand writing for several writing projects, a strange event happened. Find a nice wavy patch of untrodden sand and write a word or a phrase while on the beach with visitors from elsewhere. Take a photo of each word, then continue on to the next word, leaving the previous word intact. After a dozen [...]
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admin | September 12, 2011
The “Big Round Hill” La Butte Ronde” in House Harbour has been the cause of many a furious discussion lately. The hill is privately owned but has been too steep to be of any real value…, until visitors began buying up available land, building summer homes and putting up “Private Property” and “No Trespassing” signs…. This [...]
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admin | September 5, 2011
Walkabout is a phrase which means to walk around and explore with no specific destination in mind. In this case though, there was indeed a destination – the very top point of the Three Ladies or better known as Les Demoiselles, of Amherst Island. Les DemoisellesThe CrossWelcome to the Cross Hill This was the port [...]
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