Category: Road & Rail

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Visiting the French Island of Ile aux Marins

Tantalisingly close to where we anchored was L’Île-aux-Marins meaning The Island of the Sailors. How could we not want…

St Pierre and Miquelon – France in the New World

Saint-Pierre and Miquelon are a small group of islands situated off the south coast of Newfoundland. They were first settled…

Sailing from Bonne Bay to Francois

Panorama of François from the Lookout

Sailing from Bonne Bay towards François our course took us through the Ramea island Archipelago a group of rocks the…

National Parks Creation Controversy

Above the landing area on Bonaventure Island looking out to Akademik Ioffe

Amidst such delights laid out in the form of National Parks that we have visited across Canada on this voyage,…

People, Crafts and Music in Gros Morne National Park

Mollie White owner of Molly Made Fibre Art Studio working on one of her latched pieces

The scenery of the Gros Morne National Park that has formed the backdrop to this One Ocean Expedition on board the 117…

Plants that Eat Meat in the Gros Morne National Park

The flesh eating pitcher plant, provincial floral emlem of Newfoundland and Labrador

Gros Morne National Park is dominated by two distinctly different landscapes, a coastal lowland bordering the Gulf of St. Lawrence…

In Gros Morne National Park

kevin Barnes, Parks Canada Ranger describing serpentization in The Tablelands

We anchored off Woody Point in Bonne Bay a deep inlet that divides the Gros Morne National Park into a…

Visiting Anticosti Island

Anticosti is another of the celebrated islands situated in the Gulf of St. Lawrence at a spot where the river…

Visiting Percé on the Gaspe Peninsula

Rocher Perce on the Gaspe Peninsula from aboard Akademik Ioffe

On the mainland and directly opposite Bonaventure, lies the town of Percé (pronounced Per-Say) at the tip of the Gaspe…

Bonaventure Island and the Gannet Colony

Watching northern gannets on Bonaventure Island

Having weighed anchor at 1820 in the evening we turned our bow towards the west and steamed slowly overnight deeper…