Posts in Category: New Brunswick
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Adventure High – Sea Kayaking on Grand Manan
After wanting to get to Grand Manan island, the largest of New Brunswick’s Fundy Isles for decades, Alison and I finally got here in mid-July of 2021. My intentions were to explore the island by auto, on foot, by boat and most of all, by sea kayak. As it turned out the owners of place […]
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Royal Oaks G.C. Hole by Hole
This is my final post from Alison and my recent golf trip to New Brunswick in late September. So far we have played Kingswood, West Hills and Fundy, all of which we enjoyed tremendously and today it will be Moncton’s Royal Oaks Golf Club, the original championship course in the area. Please join us as […]
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Fundy Golf Course Hole by Hole
Alison and I arrived in Alma, the gateway to Fundy National Park after driving the Fundy Trail Parkway which has now been completed from St. Martins through to Sussex, as part of our continuing fall golf expedition to New Brunswick where we will play the Fundy Golf Course. Arriving here brought back fond memories from […]
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Fundy Trail Parkway – Drive It In 2021!
New Brunswick’s Fundy Trail Parkway joins Nova Scotia’s Cabot Trail and Newfoundland and Labrador’s Viking Trail as one of the great scenic drives, not just in Atlantic Canada, but in all of North America. Here’s why you must drive it, bike it or hike it soon. It was late September, 2020 and Alison I were […]
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West Hills G.C.- Fredericton’s Great New Layout
Prior to the pandemic, many people seemed to think that golf was a sport on the decline with a number of clubs in Canada struggling to maintain a viable membership. All that changed in the summer of 2020 as people realized that golf was one sport that you could play without many Covid restrictions. The […]
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Kings Landing – Where Past is Present
Long before George R.R. Martin dreamed up King’s Landing as the principal city in Game of Thrones, there existed a real Kings Landing on the Saint John River just north of Fredericton, New Brunswick. Despite visiting New Brunswick on dozens of occasions over the years, Alison and I actually got to the site of the fictional […]
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Kingswood Golf Course Hole by Hole
Kingswood Golf Course on the outskirts of Fredericton opened in 2003 to accolades including being named Canada’s best new course and I have wanted to play it ever since. The course was originally named The Lynx at Kingswood Park, but thankfully that overly artsy named was dropped in favour of the more properly descriptive Kingswood. […]
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The Restigouche – Three Days of Paddling this Famous River
The Restigouche is one of Atlantic Canada’s fabled salmon rivers. At the right time of year a long section of the river from the confluence of the Kedgwick to the mouth of the Upsalquitch is virtually a deserted wilderness. It’s usually easy paddling, with no portages and only the occasional stretch of very mild white […]