My grandfather, Daniel Brennan 1865-1950, was the first registered male child born on Sable Island. The family lived on the island while my great grandfather was with the staff of the life-saving service....
One day someone said something about an island of horses, an island of wild horses. I might have been five or six, but after that I waited and I waited, and eventually the name of the island appeared....
When my first attempt to visit the island was cancelled (rains washed out the runway) I wrote about all I dreamed of seeing on Sable. Months later, the words came to life when I finally arrived - magical....
Gina joined MSC’s Sable Island team in 2007. Between shifts, Gina walks and takes photos, recording seasonal changes, the comings and goings of wildlife, and beachcast oddities, large and small, and tiny....
The Sable Island Institute and the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia’s ArtsSmarts Nova Scotia program visited Atlantic View Elementary school in Lawrencetown for a fun day of Sable Island-themed art-making....
In late January 2018, White Point Beach Resort hosted the 2nd Annual Salute to Sable Island Weekend - a fundraiser for the Sable Island Institute, and a special 'Sable experience' for all....
In summer 2009, between long hours of field work, copying field data and preparing labels, Janet kept a journal of the feelings, sensations, images, and mysteries of her Sable Island experience—poetry....
In 2017, I worked on Sable for the Met Service as an Aerological Observer. A favorite experience was a radiosonde balloon launch in relatively high winds when there was a storm ripping up the east coast....
The Ipswich Sparrow, Sable Island’s endemic songbird, named for the place where it was first discovered in Ipswich, Massachusetts, just a few miles from where I first saw my first, but a century before....
Gina Little, a technologist with the Meteorological Service of Canada, spends six months annually on Sable. Her photos record some of the island’s details, patterns, and scenes, many of which are fleeting....