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The above video is Emile Gautreau, a Metis Elder, who explains environment changes taking place eleven years ago.  Yes climate changes were taking place even then. He talks about the winds changing and mosquitoes hatching later  in the season. The prevailing wind always used to be...Read more

   It was rather fitting for Gilbert M. Grosvener, Chairman of National Geographic Society Board of Trustees and Education Foundation, who calls Baddeck his favorite place,  to launch this new book at Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site. The new book of course is National Geographic...Read more

Wow… what an incredible 10 days of hiking. Great weather, an amazing camaradie & friendship among the hikers, interesting & challenging trails, and informative evening activities made the 5th Annual Hike the Highlands festival memorable. Thanks to you, our festival matched last...Read more

Recently, I had the opportunity to hike Broad Cove Mountain, one of the hikes featured in this year’s Hike the Highlands Festival. I managed to get a picture of a Lady Slipper (see above) on my way up the mountain. Broad Cove mountain is a hiking trail located in the Cape Breton Highlands...Read more

Despite being winter in the Highlands,  you can still enjoy hiking by snowshoe. My wife and I enjoyed a great hike the other day on the Red Island Trail . This trail  was part othe Hike the Highlands Festival last year. You certainly get a different perspective of the trail in the winter. ...Read more

Recently, my wife and I came across a couple of Ruffed Grouse while hiking in the woods on the crust. Ruffed Grouse are commonly known as partridge here. The above ruffed grouse could hear me coming and flew onto a tree, fluffed out to warn the other one of danger. Some interesting tidbits, the...Read more