#Miscou Island

[jdibe22686]

[celtfather]

Into Spring #599

Spring is here. Spring is here. Life is skittles and life is the Irish & Celtic Music Podcast #599.

Adam Young, The Langer's Ball, Allison Lupton, Socks in the Frying Pan, John Doyle, Charmas, Gaelynn Lea, Laughing Jack, Beth Patterson, Lily Bentley, The Ennis Sisters, Liesel Wilson, The Town Pants, Alexander James Adams

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0:12 - Adam Young "Corned Beef and Garbage" from Yearbook

7:51 - WELCOME

9:53 - The Langer's Ball "Reels: Drowsy Maggie/Fermoy Lasses/Cooley's" from Appetite for Tradition

13:11 - Allison Lupton "Lost Jimmy Whelan" from Words of Love

17:12 - Socks in the Frying Pan "Funky in Theory" from Without a Paddle

21:02 - John Doyle "Her Long Hair Flowing Down" from The Path of Stones

27:25 - FEEDBACK

30:11 - Charmas "Lukey's Boat" from Songs of the Sea

33:04 - Gaelynn Lea "Tombigbee Waltz" from The Songs We Sing Along the Way

36:37 - Laughing Jack "Jolly Rovin' Tar (Live)" from Live at the Indy Folk Series

39:32 - Beth Patterson "Je M'endors (The French Blues)" from Hybrid Vigor

42:15 - THANKS

43:44 - Lily Bentley "Black Country (Death Is Not The End)" from Norwood Gothic

45:48 - The Ennis Sisters "Go Rosie Go" from Keeping Time

48:59 - Liesel Wilson "Alishan De Guniang" from The Path

51:34 - The Town Pants "Miscou Island" from Something to Say

55:36 - CLOSING

56:16 - Alexander James Adams "Your Coming Spring" from The Blue Rose Rare and Other Faerie Tales

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Paul White replied: "Hey Marc, Greetings from the South Coast of England! I tend to listen to your podcasts whilst working out on my spin bike or when out driving to do some geocaching.

What are your doing for St Patrick's Day? Got to be honest, nothing this year as my partner passed away on St David's day 😭"

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What are you doing while listening? Wood turning, resin casting or driving.

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[dorsalfin]

being raised on stories about ghost ships and selkies and visiting miscou island and being told not to go on the dark rocks by the shore and always having sand in your backpack because you were always going to the beach . Come on!!!! Gravel beaches with pine trees all along the coast with steep cliffs and the beauty of the atlantic pleaseeeeeee

people being like omg dark maritime aesthetic lighthouses shipwrecks etc. and being told maine/new england etc. Bro there's literally a region of canada named the maritimes helloooo???

[the-nikodemos]

Phare de Miscou / Miscou Island Lighthouse

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“Alone at Lighthouse, Guard Dies in Fire,” The Globe and Mail. December 15, 1939. Page 17. --- Moncton, N.B., Dec. 14 (CP). - Discovery of the charred body of a lone lighthouse guard on isolated Miscou Island in far northern New Brunswick was reported here today by Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

The body of Charles R. Brune, whose family had tended the lighthouse for three generations, was found in the fire-swept ruins of an oil shed on the island. The fire had not spread to the lighthouse.

[cleverwordsandotherstuffilike]

The spectacular red bogs of Miscou Island Acadian coast

[natures-moments]

☆ Landscapes

Miscou Island, New Brunswick, Canada

Miscou Island is a Canadian island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence on the northeast tip of Gloucester County, New Brunswick.

[jannis-world-connection]

Posted @withregram • @natgeotravel Photo by @MichaelGeorge / There’s a single road that leads to the Miscou Island lighthouse. On either side, brilliantly red moss peat bogs sit there waterlogged, so heavy that the only thing keeping them afloat seems to be their color. And oh, what a color it is. The Earth saved up all its red paint for this one small area. My eyes (and my camera) could barely process the brightness that stretched out to the horizon. We arrived there in the pouring, freezing rain. Determined to walk the boardwalk, I pulled on my soaked gloves and protected my camera as best I could. A few teenagers ran screaming from their cars to get a quick look. We let the cold sink in and I laughed at the pops of green within the red. It was like we were stuck in someone’s Christmas-colored fantasy. This is the only place in the world I’ve seen such a consistent and striking saturation in a landscape. It felt like the leaves were glowing with their radiance. Seeing this color pop, even on the grayest of gray days, I couldn't help wondering what it’s like to witness when it’s sunny. For more photos and writing from my travels, follow along @MichaelGeorge. #miscouisland #newbrunswick #canada #peatbog #red https://www.instagram.com/p/CGLrfRVBUX9/?igshid=1f1p8ve3co0tj

[csnews]

Three North Atlantic right whales tangled in fishing gear in the Gulf

CTV Atlantic - July 5, 2019

After six North Atlantic right whales were found dead last month, three more have been discovered – alive, but entangled in rope in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The department of fisheries and oceans says the first was spotted Saturday east of Miscou Island in northeast New Brunswick.

Thursday, they discovered two more -- one east of Miscou Island and the other east of the Gaspe peninsula. It's believed the third first became entangled in April in U.S. waters. All three were spotted in areas already closed to fishing. DFO says it's considering its options for disentangling the whales, but says it can be a dangerous operation for both crew members and the endangered mammals. There are only about 400 North Atlantic right whales left in the world.

[reysim]

Thursday October 6/2022

Rising at dawn, we caught the sunrise from cape bon ami. I noticed a couple of little birds in stress. One couldn’t find his way out from inside the cabin, so I guided it out successfully. The other had hit the outside glass window head on and couldn’t move. I got really close and helped her to get on my iPad and carried her to the picnic table. I went to get some bread crumbs and water in case, but by the time I got back, she had recovered from the shock and flown away.

Continuing our drive around the Gaspe peninsula, we stopped at Perce Rock: a long thin sea stack, with an obelisk pillar at one and a tunnel through it. Next was a World War II fortification where are you can walk underground through the gun emplacements and magazine shell storage.

Today was one those endless driving days. We drove through fogs where we couldn’t see anything, as well as through beautiful villages with colourful cabins and unique churches. Eventually we got to New Brunswick and stopped at Pokeshaw Rock for a picnic meal.

At Miscou Island, we walked on a bog boardwalk and took amazing pictures before we got to the distant lighthouse for sunset.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Since June 7, six North Atlantic right whales have been found dead, floating in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, in a loss that amounts to more than one per cent of the population of the endangered species.

The whales were all found in the area between New Brunswick's Miscou Island, Quebec's Magdalen Islands and northern P.E.I.

While there have been sightings of dead right whales in the area before, Tonya Wimmer, a marine biologist and the director of Marine Animal Response Society, said it's on a different scale this time around. The charitable organization is dedicated to rescue and study of marine animals.

"It's a bit of an unprecedented event in that we've never had an incident like this involving right whales where so many animals have been turning up dead just over the last few weeks," said Wimmer.

Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) estimates the global population of the right whale is approximately 500. This means the dead whales account for a little over one per cent of the species. To put that into context, if one per cent of humans were to die, that would be over 75 million people.

"The loss of even one animal is huge with animals with a population this small. Basically, every animal counts," said Wimmer.

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[travellingpair]

THE ACADIAN COAST TO GASPE

The Giant Lobster at Shediac

We left Amherst Sunday morning and backtracked a little to get to Port Elgin and onto the Acadian Coastal Drive.  Cape Pele frustrated us in that we couldn't find a way to get to the beach, but we did find Parlee Beach a bit further up the coast and stopped there for a long stroll on the sand.  A popular place in Summer based on the huge parking areas and facilities!   In Shediac we found a great open air market and while we admired the produce, the hot food, and the artisans work  we came away empty handed.  We of course had to visit the Giant Lobster here too!! The coastline along this stretch is very picturesque!  A short stop at Cocagne for refreshment then after the diversion around Bouctouche (bridge replacement) we stopped again at the Irving Eco Centre La Dun, which is on a long sand spit out into the Northumberland strait.  This is a protected area with dunes and marshes through which there is a 900m boardwalk from which you can watch the birdlife among the Marram grass and other plants.  On the road again past Cap Lumiere to Rexton where we left the Coastal Drive as it was getting late in the day, and took the main highway over the huge bridge over Miramichi river in to the town itself and our stop for the night. Unfortunately the part we skipped was through Kouchibouguac National Park but there you go!  

A damp start to Monday and a frustrating 10km round trip to the visitor centre which was closed for the season and back on the Coastal Drive having got a very needed propane fill (the motorhome, not us!) to Neguac where just on the edge of town there is a great little park area and a boardwalk with info boards around the salt marsh (and a lighthouse).  The drizzle seemed to stop today every time we got out for a walk so another nice walk around and some education too! At Shippagan we had a lunch stop at a lovely park on the waterfront, then on again up the peninsula and over the bridges to Miscou Island. Here we found a visitor centre that was actually open and had a chat with the lovely french speaking lady there.  We drove down to Miscou Beach (yes we like beaches as well as lighthouses!) where we beachcombed among the sand, driftwood, seaweed and stones before driving up to the end of the island and the 160+ year old wooden lighthouse. A wonderful old building with 70ft hand hewn uprights of Pine brought in from British Columbia and soaked in seawater to preserve them.  The view from the top was awesome!  The only sad sight was a beached whale which was being examined to find out what happened to it. Back on the road again we drove back down through Shippagan and on North to Caraquet and the campground there for the night.

The unusual rock formations at Pokeshaw

Tuesday we moved on, stopping at Pokeshaw to view the sandstone columns and the weird little island.  We went down to the beach for a wander and a closer look at the sandstone, then on towards Bathurst where we spotted Daly Point Nature Reserve. We walked some of their many trails before moving on to Bathurst itself, then on through Beresford, Nigadoo, Belledune and Dalhousie to Campbelton. The last section of this journey we could see across to Gaspe and the mountains there, but the area we went through was very industrial so not particularly picturesque!  A brief stop to replenish the drinking water then across the big bridge into Quebec and the Gaspe Peninsula.  Again the visitor centre just after the bridge was closed so all we had to go on was our big book map which isn't very detailed.  What a lovely surprise we had travelling East along this first part.  It is beautiful!  The scenery, the villages all beautifully kept.  We had some brief stops along the way through Escuminac, Maria, Carleton-Sur-Mer to New Richmond where we had planned to stop for the night but the campground was closed. We watched the sun go down over the bay then travelled on looking for somewhere to spend the night and ended up in Caplan, where we parked up outside Camping Ruisselet since the place seemed closed.  

[kandsgoeast]

Caraquet and Miscou Island walks for my birthday! 🎂

August 22, 2019