November 2025 Canlife Correspondence - Slow Travel, Self-Heating Batteries, Stellar S'Mores, & Solar Tax Rebates!
Back in the Familiar & Strange... There's this hike near the town of St Anthony on the Great Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland, and we can't get it out of our minds. It strikes exactly the right balance between input effort and visual payoff as it winds through green rolling hills, and towering cliffs above the sea. Like many hikes in the province, the views remain unobstructed by the quirky happenstance of soil biology, growing season, and ocean climate. The few trees that do grow along this boggy shore are stunted and stubborn. We summertime visitors only know the fleeting sunshine season while they scratch out a determined existence making the most of what they can. In the distance, islands and capes peek through ocean mist, and at the right time of year, icebergs float by on the Labrador current like moving skyscrapers . Every corner and hilltop offers another chance to prove the inadequacy of our cameras....