Seabird Colonies at Witless Bay and Cape St. Mary’s, Newfoundland

March in Nova Scotia is a changeover time caught between two seasons. Snow still lingers, blanketing fields and woods, but shrinking away from exposed patches of soil and grass. Temperatures bob aroun...

Newfoundland’s Northern Peninsula: St. Pauls to L’Anse aux Meadows

Newfoundland’s Northern Peninsula points northeast toward Greenland like the index finger of an otherwise clenched fist. Vilis and I spent three days exploring it at the end of last June, drivin...

Hiking Gros Morne Mountain, Newfoundland

After three days of exploring Newfoundland’s Northern Peninsula (next post), Vilis and I returned to Gros Morne National Park to celebrate Canada Day (July 1) by climbing Newfoundland’s se...

Honeyeaters

With less than a week remaining before the vernal equinox, a late winter storm has again wreaked havoc in Nova Scotia, dumping freezing rain, ice pellets and snow during the past two days, rendering r...