What's It All About, eh?

Cape Breton evokes deep memories and strong emotions for me as well as a deep appreciation for the beauty of my adopted island. My hopes are that you too might find the photos evocative - maybe a view you've not enjoyed before, or an 'Oh I've been there', or if from away that you may be encouraged to visit this fair isle so that you might come to love and breathe Cape Breton as I do. One word about place names that I use - some are completely local usage while others are from maps of Cape Breton that I've purchased over the years. I frequently post travel and other photos that are of interest to me - and hopefully you.

On the right hand side bar find my take on Single Malt whiskey - from how to best enjoy this noble drink to reviews (in a most non-professional manner) of ones that I have tried and liked - or not. Also musings, mine and others, on life in general.

Photographs are roughly 98%+ my own and copy-righted. For the occasional photo that is borrowed, credit is given where possible - recently I have started posting unusual net photographs that seem unique. Feel free to borrow any of my photos for non-commercial use, otherwise contact me. Starting late in 2013 I have tried to be consistent in identifying my photographs using ©smck on all out of camera photos I personally captured - (I often do minor computer changes such as 'crop' or 'shadow' etc but usually nothing major), and using ©norvellhimself on all photos that I have played around with in case it might not be obvious. Lately I have dropped the ©smck and have watermarked them with the blog name.

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Still Water

14 August 2013
Calum and I headed out from DanNeils Bridge on an overcast afternoon yesterday - water level was decent but would have been nicer if it were about 6 inches higher - here I pulled into a still-back water, peeled the two zip-lock sandwich bags off my camera and got a nice down stream shot with Calum in the distance.  (I already have quite a few smears on an inner lens of my camera which I laboriously delete using "retouch" on Picasa and was hoping that I could keep the camera nice and dry while I took a few photos for memories sake).  Shortly after this set of photos the rain set in with a nice chill to the kayaking venture.
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Day Lake Canoe Paddle




12 August 2013
We canoed about two miles, from our take-off from the distant shore in the first photo, against the wind and bracing waves to the calm cove at the far right side of the lake.  Here we beached the canoe and stretched our legs, then checked the outlet that we were told led to some lovely interior lake-lets (photo 2).  Here the remains of a long ago crib-work are shown in photo 3, while photo 4 shows the rocky race that we had to walk the canoe through for about a quarter-mile. 
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Grey Day At Black Point

10 August 2013

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Inverted Sunset

07 August 2013

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Trout View Stream

07 August 2013

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