Blogs from Kejimkujik National Park, Nova Scotia, Canada, North America

Drove to Kejimkujik. Keji is also flat. Keji is not on the ocean like our other parks, but has a huge lake. It is also a newer park – about 50 years old – but there wasn’t much built on the land. We stopped for lunch on our drive at a picnic area and were welcomed to Nova Scotia by a colorful woman who was on a driving tour with friends for her birthday week and another man. Very friendly province! Today we hiked to the Mills Falls on the Mersey River. The river is brown. We were able to climb on rocks near the falls and the kids had a lot of fun with the floating bridge over the river. Maggie and Rick made Lu’sknikn – a Mi’kmaw bread – over the campfire. It has ... read more

G'day Firstly, Merry Christmas to everyone and all the best for 2008. Thank you to all those that have housed, fed and entertained me during 2007 - you guys are awesome Especially to Elisa and her family, who have been kind enough to adopt me this Christmas and to the Ruske family and to Chris and Pam back in Masterton for putting up with me for a couple of months. The past few weeks have been spent at the Mersey Tobeatic Research Institute (http://www.merseytobeatic.ca/), just outside Kejimkujik National Park. I have been helping out with the radio tracking of juvenile hatchling Blanding's turtles and a study into the distribution and recruitment of red oaks. Although I think I have spent more time playing and walking in the snow. The Nova Scotian Blanding's turtle has been listed ... read more