We took a wander up Signal Hill this evening to celebrate a friend’s birthday because nothing says, “We love you,” more than dragging someone out into the North Atlantic wind in January at night on the top of a hill in the dark. I’ve photographer Cabot Tower and Signal Hill more times than I can…
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Cupids. Not Brigus. Oops.
After lunch, the sun jumped out, the sky turned blue, the snow stopped and we went to Cupids. In my last post I did say we’d go to Brigus next, didn’t I? Right. I lied. But you’ll like Cupids. I promise. Cupids is actually just north of Brigus and we decided to swing through the…
Conception ‘arbour & Bacon Cove
After Avondale, we mosied along to Conception Harbour. There’s a wreck there of a whaling ship, thought to be the “SS Sposa” that has been beached there since 1964 and it makes for dramatic photos. Apparently the SS Southern Foam and SS Charcot lie out in the harbour and make for excellent scuba destinations. For…
Avondale Station, everybody out!
Today we went exploring, as we are prone to doing in winter. Truth to tell, we’re pretty much prone to dropping everything and wandering off vaguely, quite of our own accords at any season of the year, but we make a pointed effort to do so in winter so as to avoid doldrums (which are…
Get out while you can….
Years and years ago, I vowed that I would buy skis when there was actually enough skiable snow in a winter to warrant doing so. Our winters have snow, it’s true, but they also have rain (and fog, sleet, slush that falls out of the sky, freezing rain, freezing fog, hail, etc.) and lots of…
Raising the Bar Strength & Conditioning 