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Reaching Miscou Lighthouse is like reaching somewhere sacred. Stark, blown clean by the wind, most of it bog. The edge of the province. When I step past the lighthouse it's like walking through a membrane out of my world and into something that isn't. When I emerge my perspective has always changed, I see myself clearer, I see Elaine clearer. It's what a sacred place is supposed to do. Read more Miscou... |
Check out our Food section where we explore Acadian restaurants and recipes. Join us in our search for the perfect fish dinner, delicious, healthy and cheap. We also have been rating the fish and chips along the coast because Acadians love their fish and chips. Read more about Food... Read more about Food in Acadie...
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The more we look, the more we see. The more we see, the more we realize what we haven't seen. We'll get an impulse to head to, say, Bas Cap-Pelé, for a shot of the fish processing plants. Then we wind up counting the number of plants this little corner of New Brunswick has and realize just how reliant they are on the fishery. But it started from the photograph. Read more Images... |
We met and came together later in life and that poses some challenges, but the cottage in Cocagne became our first home together, our first shared space. If gave us privacy, sunny sensual surroundings and a place to breathe and relax. A slow pace and a place where love could bloom. Read more Love Story... |
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You can make a day at Cap-Lumiére be whatever you want it to be, and wander along its shore as long as you want to. There is no interpretive center, no signs, no boardwalk. It is a rare find and a gift in this day and age of development gone mad. Make of it what you want. Make all of the discoveries yourself. Read more Cape of light... |
The ferry to Borden PEI used to leave from here, but now the terminal is abandoned and derelict. Wind blows through broken windows. Plants are breaking up the pavement and reclaiming the ground. The wharf and surrounding buildings all have fallen into disrepair and are unsafe. A chain link fence attempts to prevent access to the curious and foolhardy.
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The bishops in the kayak piece is what caught our attention. It was on the lawn of a home in Bas Cap-Pelé along with maybe 20 other pieces with a sign in front that said, “Goguen’s Musee de l'Art Brut. Now, they may not have been bishops but we always try to make sense of what we see and these two mannequins had what look to be coconut miters on their heads. Read more Two Bishops...
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I can't help but be awed by Confederation Bridge. By any standard, that's a huge bridge. On a trip to PEI during the nineties, at the beginning of what was supposed to be a trip across Canada, I saw the bridge in mid-construction. I saw it from the ferry, which would soon be replaced. For the ferry's staff watching that bridge being built must have been like a condemned man watching carpenters build the scaffold he'd hang from. Read more Tormentine... |
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I was hoping to be surprised by a trip around Baie Verte to where New Brunswick meets Nova Scotia at Tidnish. I was hoping it might be like rounding the Cape of Good Hope where we might discover some bird found only there, or that the customs were strange and exotic.
The only strange thing we found was a woman sitting in what looked like a toll booth with a Do Not Disturb sign on her door. Read more Baie Verte... |
Getting to Miscou is a relief. The drive isn't easy. You have to really want to get there. But then, at the end, I see the very tall, massive, octagonal shaped, red and white lighthouse (held down with guy wires). And even though the lighthouse is so huge, the restraining wires give the illusion that it could float away, like a balloon. Read more Lighthouse... |
