I’m back in Rocky Harbour Nfld meeting with tourism businesses interested in experiential tourism and an adventure association looking to enhance their shared Web presence. There are some really beautiful sights and interesting people. I hope to share a few with you over the next week.
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Thanks for the recent team building retreat visit CPI. It’s no surprise that Canada’s premier personal insurance company came to the Edge this week for an Executive Team Building Adventure. Some of Canada’s top 100 Companies join us for RailQuest team building adventures that start downtown at Union Station, Toronto and end up [...]
We got down deep into -5 territory on the thermometer last night here at Northern Edge Algonquin. I drove to town for some phone calls this morning and passed dozens of photo opportunities as the frost on grasses, leaves and trees was being hit by morning sunshine breaking through clouds of mist…. beautiful. [...]
Hey there Mr Blind Pig. Chatted on Skype for a bit with Aaron Awad, a former student who spent some time here in the early years helping create some of the Edge footprint. He’s a design guy now - http://www.blindpigdesign.com…Hey Aaron, come on up and bike some trails this year.
Tom, my brother, aka [...]
Thanksgiving Weekend is usually followed around these parts with a swift decline in fall colours. Thankfully, we are enjoying bright yellows and oranges that continue to blaze through the forest. It seems only the tallest of trees have given up their leaves until spring.
Tomorrow Mark and I are going for a backcountry canoe [...]
I just returned to the main house after enjoying the first products of Rockie the Bake Oven. After weeks of waiting for the water to evaporate from the clay, with the help of small fires, Greg decided it was time for a test firing, before the big celebration with a party on the 15th [...]
The Honourable David Ramsay, Minister of Natural Resources and our Nipissing Member of Provincial Parliament are visiting the Edge on Friday. I’m quite excited about the opportunity to spend an hour with them discussing our treasured Algonquin Provincial Park and what can be done to protect its natural and aesthetic beauty.I am quite thankful [...]
Thanks to Dwayne Brunet and his students from Windsor who joined us this weekend for a school canoe trip. Beautiful fall colours and warm temperatures created optimal conditions for this trip. Thanks to Liz Jones and Meagan Ballantyne for joining Jennifer Macfarlane in leading this trip. Library of images will be online [...]
