Logo Logo Logo Logo Logo
  • Home
  • About Sable
  • About Us
  • Community
  • Notes
  • Resources
  • Contact
  • Donate
  • Home
  • About Sable
  • About Us
  • Community
  • Notes
  • Resources
  • Contact
  • Donate
Search:

10 Sep Sable: A Dream Realized 60 Years Later – Pamela Delaney, September 2020

Posted at 08:14h in Connections, Featured by Zoe Lucas 5 Comments
0 Likes

I had not just left the mainland of Nova Scotia that day, I had left the planet, my earthly tether, my mortal coil. I had finally been to Sable Island, where souls fly free....

Read More

02 May The Shifting Sands of Sable – Devon James Gillighan, February 2020

Posted at 22:03h in Connections, Featured by Zoe Lucas 3 Comments
0 Likes

Since childhood I have been fascinated by islands. In summer 2018, I had the privilege and honour of visiting an island unlike any other. Sable Island is solitary, sensitive, and sublime in every sense....

Read More

27 Apr Wind, Waves and Sand – Jordan Eamer, April 2020

Posted at 23:45h in Connections, Featured by Zoe Lucas 3 Comments
0 Likes

Having studied coastal dune geomorphology, how perfect to end up in a place like Sable, an island entirely consisting of dunes, where sand, in wild and weird ways, shapes, and is shaped by, the landscape....

Read More

15 Apr Sable Island, Just a Wink in the Sea – Greg Stroud, April 2020

Posted at 06:58h in Connections, Featured by Zoe Lucas 7 Comments
0 Likes

My aunt warned me that if I didn’t behave I’d be shipped off to Sable Island. Years later when I told her I was going to work on the island, she looked at me very seriously and said, “What did you do?”...

Read More

05 Feb Island of Sand and Horses – Allison Taylor, February 2020

Posted at 20:21h in Connections, Featured by Zoe Lucas 9 Comments
0 Likes

A winter on Sable Island, working with the Meteorological Service for 3.5 months, from November 2015 to February 2016. The wind seems constant. You wouldn’t think sand moving over sand could be that noisy....

Read More

10 Jan A Trip to Sable Island Aboard the RCGS Resolute – John Merrick, 2019

Posted at 10:20h in Connections, Featured by Zoe Lucas 0 Comments
0 Likes

It was too good an opportunity to pass up! One Ocean Tours was advertising an adventure excursion around the Gulf of St Lawrence, but the highlight for us was the opportunity for a trip to Sable Island....

Read More

22 Jul Grey Seal Research Program, Winter, Sable Island – Paul LeBlanc, 2019

Posted at 11:40h in Connections, Featured by Zoe Lucas 1 Comment
0 Likes

Standing on this island of sand on a cold winter day, experiencing a riot of sensations in a place that stimulates all of one’s senses—sight, sound, touch, smell and taste—all at the same time. ...

Read More

24 Dec A Surveyor on Sable Island in the 1970s – Tom Lockhart, 2018

Posted at 22:41h in Connections, Featured by Zoe Lucas 1 Comment
0 Likes

I first visited Sable in 1974 while working for a Calgary based survey-engineering company. One of the company’s clients was Mobil Oil, and I was there to take measurements at Mobil’s West Sable well....

Read More

08 Dec Once upon a time – Rita Wilson, 2018

Posted at 19:59h in Connections, Featured by Zoe Lucas 0 Comments
0 Likes

I went to Sable Island. A land of magic. It had to do with luck. I was a member of the Read by the Sea committee casting about for a fundraiser; someone thought of Sable Island. That was ten years ago....

Read More

28 Aug Sable Island… revisited – Jennifer Veres, 2018

Posted at 08:32h in Connections, Featured by Zoe Lucas 3 Comments
0 Likes

So, 9 years later, I’m on a flight returning from Portugal. After hours of looking from my window seat at the vastness of the Atlantic, something shining, small and crescent-shaped, caught my attention....

Read More
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
About SII

The Sable Island Institute is a multidisciplinary organization developing and conducting a wide range of Sable Island programs, including environmental monitoring, biodiversity surveys, arts and culture projects, and public outreach. The Institute is expanding on the roles of the Friends of the Green Horse Society and will continue the Society’s key initiatives. The Sable Island Institute is registered under the Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act S.C. 2009, c.23.

Website development by Boom12; development & design by Zoe Lucas/SII and Alison K Consulting;  © 2021 Sable Island Institute, all rights reserved. Privacy Policy.

  • Home
  • About Sable
  • About Us
  • Community
  • Notes
  • Resources
  • Contact
  • Donate