Water Wilderness Water Treatment Workshop At a camping symposium this fall, I had the privilege of leading a workshop on wilderness water treatment. I figured it would also be of interest to share my notes here. Note: This
New Brunswick Sam Orr's Pond This past weekend, I went on my first camping trip of 2019. I started off the weekend in the town of St. Andrew's, walking around and looking in a few shops. Just outside
Movies & TV Recently Watched: 3 Foreign-Language Films This post is just a few quick reviews of some movies I've watched recently. Incendies is a French-Canadian movie from 2010. It was nominated for an Oscar for best foreign-language film. It is
New Brunswick Frostival Frostival is an annual winter festival in Fredericton. I've gone to some events in it the past several years, but I don't think I've written about it before. One of the events that
Water Open Channel Hydraulics for Paddlers This post combines two of my interests: engineering and paddling. During my undergrad studies (at the University of New Brunswick) I took a course called "Open Channel Hydraulics". Recently I decided
Outdoor Adventures A Day Off of Deer Island The weekend that just passed was the New Brunswick Day long weekend here. As in previous years I wanted to get out and enjoy some of the natural beauty in the province. Deer
Travel Appalachian Appellation I was recently down in northwestern Virginia on a business trip. Because I was there over a weekend, I had the chance to do a couple of hikes in the area. One spot
Travel fietspaden en droge voeten This is my final post based off of my trip to the Netherlands. It focuses on reviewing a book about land reclamation and flood control infrastructure in the Netherlands and sharing a couple
Travel Zuid-Holland The second part of my visit to the Netherlands was spent in the Rotterdam area (there are a lot of "'dam" places in the Netherlands; I also passed through Zaandam and
Travel Five Days in Denmark I didn't have a post last week because I was returning from vacation. In the next few posts, I'll be writing about the places I went: Denmark and the Netherlands. As the title
Outdoor Adventures National and Local Parks, 2017 We're approaching the end of another year so it is time to start looking back at 2017. One of my goals for this year (since it is Canada's sesquicentennial anniversary) was to visit
Outdoor Adventures Mushrooms and Messier Objects This weekend I went camping in Kouchibouguac National Park with a friend from the West Coast. This was my 2nd time tenting this summer (well, it was technically the beginning of fall). It
Outdoor Adventures Chignecto My apologies for not having any posts for a couple of weeks. Summer is winding down here and I've been trying to make the most of it. This weekend and last weekend, I
Travel 2 Lakes I was on vacation last week, hence not having a post. To start with, I went to Nova Scotia for the weekend to attend a wedding; after that, I flew to Ontario for
New Brunswick Cost of Housing in New Brunswick In recent times, it has been hard to escape noticing the very expensive cost of housing in Toronto and Vancouver (though it seems to be stabilizing for now). I decided to do a
New Brunswick Looking for Whales in Charlotte County I was on vacation for a few days last week and went on a couple of fun day trips with my girlfriend. The (free!) Irving Nature Park in Saint John offers some interesting
Outdoor Adventures Mactaquac to Morell On the weekend, I took a kayaking trip down a 20-km stretch of the Saint John River, from near the Mactaquac Fish Hatchery to Morell Park in Fredericton. I stopped at a few
New Brunswick Flooded Forests This weekend, I got my kayak out from winter storage and paddled around the mouth of the Nashwaak River. Around a month and a half ago, I was snowshoeing, but now the weather
Outdoor Adventures Links about Walking For this week, I just have a short post with some links I've come across recently related to hiking and walkable cities (a topic I've written about before). Strong Towns has some ideas
New Brunswick The Last Long Weekend of Summer 2016 Long weekends are a good time to get out and explore. This past weekend, I managed to get out biking, hiking, and kayaking (a different activity each day!) in places I hadn't been
New Brunswick The Red Rocks of St. Martin's This weekend, I went on a short sea kayaking tour in the Bay of Fundy. Red Rock Adventure in St. Martin's, New Brunswick, offers sea kayaking tours and other outdoor adventures. It's a
New Brunswick Portobello Creek Quite a bit closer to home than what I've been writing about recently, this post is about some kayaking I did last weekend. I went out to French Lake and Portobello Creek. The
France Calanques-en-Provence Continuing my short series about my recent trip to France, this week's post is about the time I was in Marseille. Marseille is a very cool city, centered around a large harbour. The
Map Mapping Hyla Park Hyla Park is a little-known park in Fredericton. I had the idea that more people might use it if there was a map available, so I decided to make one. Hyla Park is
R The Rains of Quinault One of the highlights of my trip to the West Coast was spending a long weekend in Olympic National Park with a couple of friends. This enormous park (bigger than the state of