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A Quick Trip to Cape Breton

We took a very short trip to Cape Breton to celebrate my grandmother's 90th birthday, on the day. It was a small outdoor barbeque and cake since I definitely don't want to be the one to give her covid and die. My parents took her to my cousins for a …

More Weekend Wandering

We stayed close to home again this weekend, but still got out for a quick adventure.

Saturday we went to the Halifax Commons Pool, the best piece of public infrastructure added in a long time, and spent a little more than an hour in the water.

Sunday I wanted to …

Weekend Update

The weather this weekend was not amazing, the Debby leftovers left the day wet and gusty so we stuck close to home. Nothing interesting, a couple loads of laundry and tidying up to get ready to get back to work tomorrow.

As I have been updating or down-dating, the theme …

That time we went on boat

We went out in a friends boat this past weekend with no real goal. He wanted to go for a ride, and so did my big guy. So we made a plan that morning.

The water seemed relatively calm and I wanted to see puffins. I have never seen one …

The first big Snow of 2024

Every year I think that we are going to be better, and every year I'm disappointed. See, there was a major snow storm this weekend, but you wouldn't know it if you drive, only if you walk. The roads are clear, but the sidewalks are a disaster.

Not only that …

Stormy Day in Lawerencetown

I'm happy to say that I think I have something resembling an image processing workflow, but I'm not sure that I actually like it. But I'm not going back to Lightroom, and CaptureOne doesn't have the image handling that I would need to switch, so here we are.

We headed …

Ravenscraig Field

We haven't been out a lot lately, I'm blaming the crappy weather and too much work, but this weekend was nice and I didn't have any deadlines.

We wanted to go to Frog Pond, but a lot of people has similar ideas as us, so we went exploring a bit …

Myra Road Falls

For the last wandering hike of the year we headed out of town, and out of service, to Myra Road Falls (AllTrails Link). It starts at the tip of Porters Lake at the north end of Myra Rd. Which no matter how many times my car's navigation tried to direct …

Polly's Cove - Most of the way

I haven't been getting out exploring as much, but on the 5th I took the kids to the Polly's Cove trail.

Open Street Maps view of Polly's Cove Trail

We headed east towards Barbara Basin, but the trail was a little too rough for the youngests legs, so we found a good spot for our snack north of …

Taylor Head Provincial Park

For Canada Day we went on an adventure to Taylor Head Provincial Park. I had a plan to do the full loop, but when we go there moderate from AllTrails was a bit harder/muddier than I expected. And for 4km for my hiking partner, through a lot of muddy …