It’s been a while since I sat down to write an update. Summer has hit full force now, and to be honest, even if I were home on the Rock right now, it’s almost too hot out to get much work done on the land. But even with the heat and being away, things have […]
Weighing the choices for off-grid power on the land. Here is why I am leaning toward the Anker SOLIX battery setup, and how a quiet backup generator fits into our plan.
My cousin, Bernie, recently took a walk across the land and sent over a video of the tour. Watching it here from my room in Nova Scotia, it felt like I was right there pushing through the branches. The land is thick and stubborn, filled with young birch and aspen, heavy fir, and spruce growing […]
When you are planning an off-grid shelter, it is easy to get caught up in the big builds. We spend hours researching solar panels, charge controllers, and waterless toilets. But when the rain starts lashing against the cabin window and the Atlantic fog rolls in thick off the sound, you realize that the most valuable […]
Every year, right around late June or early July, the damp, foggy weather rolls in off Trinity Bay. Around home, we call it caplin weather. It’s the time when millions of small, silver fish teem close to the shore, rolling onto the gravel beaches to spawn. As a boy growing up on Random Island, the […]