{"id":86,"date":"2007-06-23T22:44:33","date_gmt":"2007-06-24T03:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/06\/23\/the-great-ride-northeast\/"},"modified":"2007-06-23T22:47:16","modified_gmt":"2007-06-24T03:47:16","slug":"the-great-ride-northeast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/2007\/06\/23\/the-great-ride-northeast\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Ride North(east)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month we went up to Canada for a week.  Specifically, we were staying on the coast of New Brunswick.  I took plenty of pictures, and present here some choice ones (mostly of fauna, both domestic and wild).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--> We were very near the water, and went walking on the beach once a day.  On a couple of those walks it was low tide, and we found some jellyfish stranded on the sand.  Here is a very purple specimen:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/jellyfish1.jpg\" title=\"jellyfish1.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/jellyfish1.jpg\" alt=\"jellyfish1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Presented with a foot next to it for comparative size (we know not to step on the things, don&#8217;t worry):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/jellyfish2.jpg\" title=\"jellyfish2.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/jellyfish2.jpg\" alt=\"jellyfish2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One day while we were up there, we headed out to Prince Edward Island to go see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minimills.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Belfast Mini Mill<\/a>.   It&#8217;s a family business that makes smaller versions of traditional<br \/>\nfiber milling equipment, so that people can start up a milling business, co-op, etc. relatively cheaply and affordably, and process their own yarn in small batches, rather than sending it to big mills where it would get mixed in with other stuff.  They&#8217;ve sold such equipment to customers all over the world.  The Belfast mill makes their own yarn as well, using the machines they manufacture, and they have a bunch of livestock who provide much of the fiber they work with.<\/p>\n<p>The pics I took at the mill are all of the animals.  There were sheep, of course, but I didn&#8217;t get photos of them.  I did get llamas:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/llama2.jpg\" title=\"llama2.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/llama2.jpg\" alt=\"llama2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/llama1.jpg\" title=\"llama1.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/llama1.jpg\" alt=\"llama1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Including a baby llama!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/llama3.jpg\" title=\"llama3.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/llama3.jpg\" alt=\"llama3.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They also had geese, and &#8220;pom-pom ducks&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/geese.jpg\" title=\"geese.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/geese.jpg\" alt=\"geese.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/pomducks1.jpg\" title=\"pomducks1.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/pomducks1.jpg\" alt=\"pomducks1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/pomducks2.jpg\" title=\"pomducks2.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/pomducks2.jpg\" alt=\"pomducks2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hiding under an old Karmann Ghia was an angora rabbit:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/rabbit.jpg\" title=\"rabbit.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/rabbit.jpg\" alt=\"rabbit.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There was also a friendly cow there (whose hair probably does not get spun into yarn).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/cow1.jpg\" title=\"cow1.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/cow1.jpg\" alt=\"cow1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/cow2.jpg\" title=\"cow2.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/cow2.jpg\" alt=\"cow2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>She appreciated me scratching her head, but needed to use the fence post as well.<\/p>\n<p>Also on that day trip, we stopped at a provincial park, and I took some pictures that show the particularly red sand found in PEI.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/redbluff.jpg\" title=\"redbluff.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/redbluff.jpg\" alt=\"redbluff.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/redbluff-pei.jpg\" title=\"redbluff-pei.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/redbluff-pei.jpg\" alt=\"redbluff-pei.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Other than that, the vacation consisted of playing cards and Scrabble, and eating lots of fresh seafood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this month we went up to Canada for a week. Specifically, we were staying on the coast of New Brunswick. I took plenty of pictures, and present here some choice ones (mostly of fauna, both domestic and wild).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}