Archive for August, 2013
Have You Seen this Plant?
Indian pipe (Monotropa uniflora L.) are unbranched herbaceous plants that parasitize the roots of other plants or obtain their nutrients (especially carbon to make carbohydrates) from decaying organic matter. They also depend on soil fungi (mycorrhizae) for nutrition. (more…)
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Cape Breton Highlands National Park: A Park Lover’s Companion
by Clarence Barrett
Small and easy to carry in a backpack, this book is ‘a park lover’s companion.’ Legendary outdoors person and park warden Barrett’s narrative starts with different ways to discover the park; on foot, skis, canoe, kayak, bicycle or car. (more…)
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Guide to the National Parks of Canada
by National Geographic
For anyone exploring the national parks of Canada this book is a must because it gives you just enough feel for any park in Canada to help you decide if you want to go there, if you can actually get there, because some like the Torngat Mountains in Newfoundland and Labrador are near impossible to visit for the average traveller, and what you can do when you arrive. The book actually serves both as vacation planner and guide book. (more…)
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Hiking Trails of Cape Breton (2nd edition, 2012)
by Michael Haynes
In 2010 hiker extraordinaire Haynes walked more than 4500 km in search of trails to include in his ever popular guidebooks. That's a lot of mileage on foot. A year later he traversed every trail in this book. He divides the island into four regions, ten trails per region. The highlands are divided in two; the CB Highlands National Park region, including my favorite, Franey Mountain, and the trails found outside the park boundaries such as the wondrous vistas of ...
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Cape Breton Weather Watching
by Bill Danielson
Everyone talks about the weather around Cape Breton. For that matter everyone talks about the weather everywhere. So why not a well written, easy to understand weather book replete with beautiful photos, graphs and diagrams to illustrate the science behind It all. The author, a retired meteorology professor, lives part time in Smelt Brook not far past Neil's Harbour in northern Cape Breton and focuses many of his examples of weather phenomenon from that area but these examples are just ...
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Cape Breton Facts and Folklore
by Bill Doyle
Shortly after retiring, long time CBC radio producer Bill Doyle spent over a year reading everything he could about his island to write Cape Breton Facts and Folklore, a veritable who's who, where's where and what's what about the island and its people. (more…)
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Encampment Writing Workshop
Are you a writer looking for motivation, trying to find your muse, and up for a good adventure?
Then why not join us for another Writing Workshop Adventure. Encampment is an overnight event in which you’ll get to challenge yourself both physically and mentally. During this overnight writing workshop, you and your guides (Steven Rolls and Paul MacDougall of moosebait.com) will be dropped into the heart of the Fortress of Louisbourg, an 18th century French fortress, where you will camp on site and be ...
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