Category Archives: Walks

5 Mar 2024: Halifax Planetarium

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Sat 10 Feb 2024: Flag Pond Park

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Mon 22 Jan 2024: Burke-Gaffney Observatory

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Sun 21 Jan 2024: Sewer Stroll / Safari

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Rare Bird Walk postponed to Sunday

“Please note that due to unfavourable weather conditions anticipated for tomorrow morning, the outing (see description below) originally scheduled for tomorrow [Nov 25] has been delayed by one day. It will now be held Sunday, November 26. Meeting time and place … Continue reading

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On the Stewiacke River Paddle in July 11Sep2023

Visitors to the website might have noticed a new header image. It’s from our Stewiacke River Paddle Back in July, Courtesy of our President,  Bernie McKenna. Read more about that venture under Photos Thx Bernie – and Gareth Harding, who led … Continue reading

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The Stones of Spring Garden Road

From the HFN Programme Committee: Some of our HFN members may remember walking the quarries of Purcell’s Cove on a bone chilling day in November 2014 and again in November 2019 to visit the source of granite, dark sandstone, and … Continue reading

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Biodiverse-City Hike Series: #1 Blue Mountain Hikes Sun July 29th, 9am and 1pm

“Hello HFNers! Karen McKendry here, in my new capacity as Wilderness Outreach Coordinator with the Ecology Action Centre. I’ve been given the wonderful task of leading hike that connect people with the region’s biodiversity, and was wondering if you would … Continue reading

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Upcoming Field Trips: Brook Trail Walk (Sat Jy 7, 2018) & Old Forests of Sandy Lake (Sat Jy 14, 2018)

Join with HFN member Ron Cosper on Saturday July 7, 2018 for a woodland walk on the Bell Brook trail in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Bell Brook runs from Bell Lake to Morris Lake, but the Bell Brook trail does not … Continue reading

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Sewer Stroll postponed again, now to Sun Jan 28, 2018

Due to the continuing unstable state of some of the coastal viewing sites, the annual sewer stroll planned initially for Sunday Jan 7 and then postponed to Sun Jan 14, 2018 is now postponed to Sunday January 28, 2017. Mother … Continue reading

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Butterfly walk postponed till tomorrow (Sunday July 9)

Because of weather. View Walks and Talks: McCormack Beach Butterflies Photo by Clarence Stevens

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