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Getting to know Hemlock Ravine Park

     Chances are if you’ve never visited Hemlock Ravine Park, or been there once years ago, you are in the majority of HRM residents.  Everyone knows and loves Point Pleasant Park and the Public Gardens, but Hemlock Ravine is their unassuming, lesser-known cousin.  Most people (like myself) know very little about the park. Some […]

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The Many Charms of Cape Breton

It has been a while since I had last visited Cape Breton, and as the summer wound down, I decided I needed to do a few “summery” things before the great weather passed without anything significant to remember it by.  My friend’s family has a cottage in East Bay, on the Bras D’ors lake, and […]

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Keji

When it comes to camping, Nova Scotia has plenty to offer. Anywhere you go, it seems you’re never far from a campground. Camping is a way of life, and a rite of passage for any outdoor loving nova scotian. When you think camping in nova scotia, one place comes to mind above all others. Kejimkujik […]

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Unfinished Business (free rant included!)

With all of the beautiful early spring weather we have been having for the month of March, I immediately began to plan a camping outing. Tops on the list was to take on some unfinished business and head to the hunting camp in Enfield (see previous post “men vs wild“). The last excursion was so […]

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Tubing: It’s awesome.

The weatherman…. weatherperson…… The meteorologist called for a 30-degree beauty yesterday, which really puts the pressure on to come up with a great thing to do.  I’d been pondering the idea of taking an inflatable snow tube, or a 15 dollar Canadian tire blow up boat and putting it in to the lazy river I […]