02 Jan Sable In Words 2020 – Writing Contest for Youth
This writing contest ended on March 13th. Submissions are now being reviewed, and the winners will be announced on April 24th. Thank you to all who entered!...
14 Nov Gina’s Sable Island Photoblog, July 2019
Images of Sable Island’s landscape features, flora and fauna large and small, beachcast curiosities, and weather, collected as encountered and presented in chronological order, some with notes....
26 Aug MSC’s Aerological Program Ends After 75 Years of Service – WSA Sable Island 1944-2019
The station’s last balloon and radiosonde were launched at 8:15 pm on August 20th 2019. As the balloon went quietly up into the dark on a foggy night, so ended Sable Island’s upper air program....
26 Jul Roll Clouds of Sable Island
A roll cloud is a rare, and often spectacular, meteorological phenomenon. Since 1976, there have been six reports of roll clouds passing over the island. The most recent was this summer, on July 9th....
22 Jul Grey Seal Research Program, Winter, Sable Island – Paul LeBlanc, 2019
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. ...
07 Jul Clean up of an old fuel cache at East Light in 2005
On Sable Island, the remains of old stations, communication towers and other activities, discontinued for many decades or longer, are exposed as wind scours sand away from previously buried infrastructure....
23 May Visit Sable Island!
The Sable Island Institute hosted a raffle for a Trip for Two to the Sable Island National Park Reserve in mid-September 2019. The winning ticket was drawn on July 20th....
11 May Gina’s Sable Island PhotoBlog, October 2018 – January 2019
During her autumn to mid-winter walks, Gina collected photos of weather, water and landforms, with a unique perspective that found interest and delight in what might be overlooked by a less observant eye....
22 Apr Sable In Words – Contest Winners, April 2019
All the submissions have been reviewed and the two winners selected. We are encouraged by both the number and quality of entries, and the interest and enthusiasm of everyone who sent in stories and essays....
19 Apr A Tale of Two Gatehouses
The Institute is presently headquartered in a building with an intriguing history, the Gatekeeper’s Lodge in Point Pleasant Park, built in 1896 and modelled after Wycombe Lodge in Buckinghamshire, England....