Map of New Brunswick The Miramichi River Route A.K.A Highway 8 is a scenic drive between Fredericton and Miramichi.; I recommend to bit, chew, and digest, this awesome 174 kilometer strip of river and road, one attraction at time. This is not a what do and see in Fredericton or Miramichi but what see and [...]
I have been to St Martin's beach in southern New Brunswick many times, it is a little over an hour from my home. I, like everyone else, stop and take photos of the two covered bridges, the lighthouse, and the fishing boats moored to the pier resting on the sea floor. Then continue on to [...]
As Hurricane Harvey rips a hole in Houston, I watched mesmerized by the CBC footage of the devastation. Coverage on the the weather network is also horrifing- and they add a featured a top five destructive hurricanes in Canadian history and Hurricane Hazel was one of the worst. It hit on October 15th, 1954. I [...]
Shoulder surgery has forced me to quash my adventurous side and come up with new ways to keep myself content and still feed my inner travel beast. I believe I have successfully done this by hunting out new beaches and visiting old favourites. I have been rather successful judging from my tan. Here are some [...]
https://goo.gl/maps/vBWGzRyEy9x I leave the brightness of the daylight and enter the shaded area of the walking trail. I have yellow birch, some eastern hemlock some spruce and perhaps ash trees to keep me company. They are well spaced, tall but narrow in diameter telling me this area has been logged in the past. Several [...]
I had a wild hair and I just had to get out of the house. I had found Dominion Park beach by pure accident. Driving along Westfield road in Saint John's New Brunswick, while searching for a birding hot spot at a park on Spooner Island. I couldn't bring the location up on my GPS, [...]
Who said travel was easy? I guess if you are Donald Trump, maybe you only need to say Mar-A-Lago and voilà you are there. For the rest of us, some planning is involved to get the most out of our time and money. I travel differently now than when I was younger. Not in the [...]
This is a photographic story to show you the general rule of thumb for honouring an industry, a species, or a historically significant event in New Brunswick. By building a Worlds Largest Monument ...Enjoy. Worlds Larges Axe in Nackawic, New Brunswick It represent the importance of the forestry industry to the area and the Province. [...]
Often while following one story, You Traveled Alone? I will fall into several others; A Venn diagram of travel. It was in Fredericton Junction, a sleepy community within a stones throw of my home, that this crisscrossing of history, geography and a fascination for the oddities, happened. As its name suggests, Fredericton Junction was long ago [...]
Planning trips and fulfilling my dreams is so second nature to me, that I never consider "alone" being part of the equation. Inevitably, when I tell people that I went camping, hiking, drove to this place and saw that, when out to dinner, out to the theater, took in a movie, did a photography class, [...]
