Pembroke, Canada Travel Blogs

Civilization at a Harley Rider's place?
Jun 16, 2004 (2 photos)

... the trees. Are the trees-only sections plantations, or is there some other explanation? We roll into a big gas station in Pembroke and phone Harley Dave, so-called because he rides and restores only Harley-Davidsons. He has ridden out to the coast on ...

Étape 1 - De Laval à Pembroke
Sep 7, 2007 (5 photos)

... des outardes qui avaient commencé leur migration et qui s'arrêtaient pour la nuit, sur la rivière. Le 6 septembre, nous avons visité Pembroke et leurs fameuses murales; vous en voyez quelques unes sur le blogue, mais si vous faites une recherche sur le mot ...

Esprit
Aug 19, 2008

We are in Esprit now, which is actually in Davidson, Quebec but this map doesn't seem to know where that is so I have chosen Pembroke as the next nearest location on the TravelPod map.  However, I have found the googlemap for this area, which can be ...

Bodies Swimming Everywhere
Aug 21, 2008

Yeterday I went rafting, which means yet another early morning (I think this is it for the next 3 months) at 7am. WILD starts today and there are many more early starts to come! It seems like I'm still working except that my job isn't half as much fun. ...

Catching up
Sep 25, 2008

... last - the Rupert has been given the death sentence and in a few years it will be dammed to make hydroelectric power for Canada. Unfortunately, the attempts to save the river have failed and the amazing rapids and epic views will be lost forever, not to ...

Wednesday
Aug 20, 2008

We decided to borrow kayaks today and paddle out in to the bay.  It's beautiful; the sun is shining, the water is calm and there are little sparkles on top.  I could stay here for ever. Will just arrived, and apparently Kelly arrived this ...

Christmas Day
Aug 24, 2008

Christmas came at last this morning and we got some of the gear which we ordered so that everyone had enough to go paddling. We were supposed to be doing day two of the Wilderness First Responder, but Jim (who is supposed to be teaching it) broke down on ...

Christmas is cancelled
Aug 24, 2008 (1 photos)

The WFR course started today. A whole day of CPR - oh no! It's like work, but on the decking in the sunshine. It's supposed to be Christmas today (when we get our kayaks and gear) but I've just been told that Christmas has been postponed until ...

Search and Rescue
Aug 29, 2008

Last night we had a search and rescue scenario. We picked a leader who picked five team leaders to manage smaller search teams. I was a team leader of a group of five. We were taken by bus to the Chutes Coulonge, which was the search area where an ...

Ottawa Middle Channel
Aug 22, 2008 (1 photos)

River level 8.5. I went kayaking on the Ottawa Middle today. It is BIG. Much bigger than I'm used to. Karine and Karine looked after me very well and talked me through it all. There was also a guy called Gavin (an RMP Officer from Ottawa) who was ...

Rolling Contract
Aug 28, 2008

I have made a rolling contract with Karine C. This means that whenever I want to practice my roll she has to go out on the river and help me but whenever she decides I should go out and practice I have to go. If we have time we are going to practice ...

Rafting
Sep 6, 2008

The last two days have been spent rafting on the main channel of the Ottawa River. We learnt the basic guide strokes and techniques, including several flip drills and lots of ferrying and breaking into and out of eddies. It's very hard work - much ...

OK I'm visiting
Sep 3, 2009 (2 photos)

Yes, I am staying more than one day. Have to catch up with everyone. Not going to the fiddle festival though. Grew up with more than enough of Don Messer's Jamboree. I'm waiting for the Pembroke Blues Festival....    

50 some odd days
Jan 19, 2008

... would really apreciate some advice, on this topic. but ont the better side our group was supposed to switch planes in halifax canada, and now were switching in switzerland thats always funn ehh ? so plz everyone out there in travel land reading my blogs ...

Hello from the office
Jul 27, 2009

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65 days
Jan 2, 2008

... to suck it up get on the plane and fly to italy, but im going to be a nervous wreck the entire time! I personally like the fact of gravity and that my feet are always on the ground lol. well please help ! excited and waiting in canada. natashamariee

Fiddling & square dancing by the Ottawa River
Sep 2, 2009 (2 photos)

A mere 400 or so miles later I pass into very familiar territory, the Ottawa Valley. Rolling farm fields, barn smells and small towns after you bypass Ottawa (which has a charming hostel - the old Ottawa Jail right in the downtown). There's a fiddle ...