Outrun the World’s Highest Tide

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05/2019

Outrun the World’s Highest Tide

| Adventure, Family, Festivals, Nova Scotia, Outdoors, Quirky, Summer

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The Bay of Fundy is home to the world's highest tide. Not Since Moses has there been a race against such a powerful foe, hence the name of this quirky five and ten kilometre annual run along Five Islands in Nova Scotia.

02
10/2018

Hallucinating with the Northern Lights

By Robin Esrock

| Autumn, Family, NWT, Outdoors, Quirky

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Chasing the mythical Northern Lights, Robin and his Dad visit Yellowknife, where locals might be participating in a mass hallucination.

01
05/2018

Visiting the Crooked Bush in Saskatchewan

By Robin Esrock

| Commentary, Family, Quirky, Roadtrip, Saskatchewan

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The Crooked Bush in Saskatchewan is a grove of aspen trees that mysteriously twist, bend and rope around each other. A wooded boardwalk allows you to walk amongst the crooked trees, the result of a mutation, or, as some locals like to believe, a visiting UFO.

02
10/2017

Let it Hang out on Wreck Beach

By Robin Esrock

| British Columbia, Commentary, Quirky, relax, Summer

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In a city tightly wrapped in the red tape of regulations, Wreck Beach continues to thrive as an deeply loved and respectful pocket of (clothing optional) anarchy, a beach unlike any other in North America.

Category: Quirky