“We need the tonic of wildness... At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.” - Henry David Thoreau, Walden Pond

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Jim and I took a little trip north to my dad’s family cottage, which sits on the mouth of the Bocabec River off of Fiander Road. The road was appropriately named as it used to be inhabited by my Fiander relatives; there are a few still there year-round. This little blog post is dedicated to my dad, Joe, on his 70th birthday. Thanks for opening me up to the wilderness and all the “life lessons” that went with it while crawling around on the rocks, exploring tidepools, and slipping on seaweed.