Cape Breton ...

[windsea]

is one of the most beautiful landscapes of the world, even filtered through my amateur snapshot eye (link is to my Flickr set

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[therealjae]

My new VP is from Cape Breton, just moved out here (for work, natch). I can see why he's homesick!

-J

[windsea]

Yeah, if only one could eat scenery, it'd be utterly perfect. Unfortunately, no one's ever figured out how to really make the place pay ...

[halfmoon_mollie]

It is, indeed, very beautiful. Your photos are lovely, thank you for sharing them.

I hope to get back there someday.

[allisona]

Gorgeous photos, gorgeous. I'd so love to visit Cape Breton someday.

[windsea]

Well, we're an easy two day drive from Toronto, or a cheap flight with a car rental.

And I do like playing tour guide, at the very least in Halifax. I love my province.

I'm just sayin' :-)

[hopeforyou]

I think I might have a clue where your username came from, yes? Unless it's a play on Ursula Le Guin novels...

Beautiful country. It reminds me in some ways of Acadia National Park.

I love windswept seascapes. The wildness of them. I go to the beach any chance I get, and bring my camera if I can.

[windsea]

No, not Ursula :-)

And yes, there are similarities to Acadia.

I could never live far from the sea. It is in my blood and my soul, in an absolutely fundamental way.

[morgan_dhu]

Ach, you're makin' me homesick, lass.

My mother's family is from Sydney Mines, and my father's is from Inverness.

[windsea]

We're likely related, 6th cousins 5 times removed. Some of my grandmother's people were in Inverness for a few generations, and the others were in the Sydney area for a couple of hundred years. Macaulays, Mackenzies, MacNeils, Flynns ...

[morgan_dhu]

It would be strange indeed if we weren't related, then, although the names I know from the family stories are mostly MacLeods, Morrisons, MacEachens,and Canns.

[windsea]

Oh, THEM. Well, in that case, I don't think so. ;-) ;-) ;-)

There's some MacLeods kicking around the familly tree somewhere, I know.

But I'm sure we're entwined somewhere :-D.

And the Cape Breton definition of cousin is, well, fluid. My mother's first cousin's husband's nephew (his brother's son), his partner, and their 3 year old live across the street from us. They're cousins ;-)