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What do you think of when you hear Prince Edward Island, or PEI? PEI mussels? Or, when you are in a literary state of mind, the home of Cavendish, the town that served as the model for the fictional town of Avonlea in Lucy Maud Montgomery’s novel, “Anne of Green Gables”. Those who are most […]
Cape Breton is the island at the northern tip of Canada’s Nova Scotia Province. The island, and especially the portion of the Cabot Trail that encircles the highlands near the northern tip of the island (primarily the section of the trail that is in Cape Breton National Park) was our primary motivation for visiting Nova […]
The Bay of Fundy is a large bay located on the Atlantic coast between the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. It is known for large tidal shifts. These shifts are some of the largest and most dramatic in the world. They average 47.5 feet from low to high tide and have set […]
Nova Scotia’s Annapolis Valley is a 93-mile-long Canadian valley. It runs along the Minas Basin, an estuary that is separated from the body of the Bay of Fundy by the mountainous Cape Blomidon. Its geology and microclimate makes it Nova Scotia’s most productive agricultural regions. It is especially suited to growing fruit from the 17th […]
Mendocino on the northern California Pacific coast is a beautiful small historic town that attracts nature lovers of all kind. Actually, Mendocino isn’t a town at all—but an unincorporated slice of Mendocino County. But for convenience, we will continue to refer to it as a “town”. Ford House Visitors Center The Ford House Museum and […]
Mendocino is a small unincorporated area on the northern California Pacific coast. Mendocino is known for its natural beauty, including redwood forests, glass-bottom beaches, and the only oceanfront botanical gardens in the USA. The community is a few hours north of San Francisco and is a favorite place for us to visit While it is neither […]