Every morning a family of whisky-jacks (also known as grey jays, Canada jays, or camp robbers) haunts our house here on Exploits. They’ve been coming around for decades and I often wonder if the current family is descended from the ones of my childhood. In other exciting news, we “discovered” a bee’s nest in the…
Exploits days
Just a few photos to show we’re still alive. The weather has been quite decent and we’re having a spectacular time. There’s nothing quite like an evening at Exploits. Between the sunsets and the lamplit evenings of chatting, the evenings are some of the nicest times. The kids have been having a whale of a…
A Million Little Things, or Whatever Floats Your Boat
It has been a busy couple of days, here on Exploit’s Islands. We put the Dolphin II in the water yesterday. That’s her in the photo above. Yes, we have a boat with two names. When she was repainted a few years ago, the fellow that painted her couldn’t find the template for the original…
Beautiful crossing
We’re on the boat, crossing to Exploits Islands on a perfectly beautiful summer’s day…. It never quite feels real until now, even after 37 years of making the pilgrimmage. More later…
The Squires Barn and Carriage House
Just across the street from the MUN Botanical Gardens are the Squires Barn and Carriage House heritage structures. They are considered to be representative of twentieth century agricultural structures, having been built circa 1908. I was able to wander around the outside, but didn’t get to look inside the carriage house. I would have liked…
Raising the Bar Strength & Conditioning 