A quick update

Today was rather full; full of running, family and sunshine. As such, I haven’t trolled through all my photos yet. These two, taken this afternoon at Cuckhold’s Cove, will have to suffice to whet your appetite. It turned out to be a beautiful sunny day and we took a spin in-between activities. Cuckhold’s Cove Head…

“Sure, there’s a woman up there in the bell tower….”

So after a foray along the beach, we rolled out of Point Lance, stopping along the way to photograph an interesting house that was adorned with stars and sat adjacent to a lovely little shed. Every dog in Point Lance barked at me while I took these. I could feel the stares of the residents…

Road trip, part 3 (Colinet and down)

After leaving Cataracts, we stopped at the fish ladder in Colinet. The Rocky River is a salmon river, but it’s March and the salmon won’t put on their display until late autumn, so what we got to see was a tremendous river, a cool bridge and a fish ladder without fish. Intriguingly, this wasn’t originally…

Road trip, part 2 (Cataracts)

Cataracts Provincial Park is a lovely little spot for a picnic. It’s nominally accessible in winter, but for the love of your suspension system do not approach it from the dirt road through Markland. Holy ruts and potholes, Batman! We crawled down that road at top speeds approaching a blistering 20k/h and Katherine learned lots…

Road trip, part 1

At nine-thirty this morning it was grey and cold and bland outside. John and I had been looking at each other and wondering what, among the myriad of options available to us, we were going to do. Then I said, “I feel like I need to be in Whitbourne. I don’t know why.” John blinked…