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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French Polynesia

Welcome visitor from French Polynesia - this is a first for my blog - hope you visit this blog in the future also.  NorvellHimself.
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Margaree Harbour about 1910

"A schooner /ˈskuːnər/ is a type of sailing vessel with fore-and-aft sails on two or more masts, the foremast being no taller than the rear mast(s).
Such vessels were first used by the Dutch in the 16th or 17th century (but may not have been called that at the time – see etymology, below). Originally schooners were gaff-rigged, but modern schooners may be Bermuda-rigged. Schooners were further developed in North America from the early 18th century, and came into extensive use in New England.[1] The most common type of schooners, with two-masts, were popular in trades that required speed and windward ability, such as slaving, privateering, and blockade running. They were also traditional fishing boats, used for offshore fishing.[2] In the Chesapeake Bay area several distinctive schooner types evolved, including the Baltimore clipper and the pungy.  Schooners were popular on both sides of the Atlantic in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but in Europe they gradually gave way to the cutte"

re/Wikipedia (feel free to donate to this fine non-profit on line site - a rarity in today's world)

Photograph of old post card courtesy of Vintage Cape Breton Photos.com

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Mooned At Bombay Hook

This long zoom photograph across a small inland arm of the Delaware Bay shows two large white birds, hind-end-to, which I cannot identify properly but I am torn between saying 'Swans' or possibly 'Pelicans' that have been blown northernly off course of their normal habitat.
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Do You See The Turtle?


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The Master Soarer, The Turkey Vulture - Cathártes áura

Once aloft and in the right conditions this bird may soar for hours at a time, never flapping his wings as he looks for carrion - anything from a dead rabbit or frog, to a deer-kill carcass on the side of the road, it's dinner to this great sanitarian 
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