Darcy Rhyno

Freelance Travel Writer and Photographer at Freelance

Writer and Editor at Daily Travel Deal

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The mountain-climbing farmer

3 days ago | saltscapes.com | Darcy Rhyno

Barry Cudmore is a farmer by trade and by heritage who’s deeply committed to serving his community and improving farming on P.E.I. and abroad. His expertise led to the creation of the Environmental Farm Plan Workbook. He co-founded Farmers Helping Farmers (FHF), which pursues practical projects in East Africa with nine Kenyan workers. The organization estimates it’s helped more than 100,000 people. In 2022, at age 72, Cudmore scaled Mount Kilimanjaro to raise money for its work.
The fiddle fixer of P.E.I. - Saltscapes Magazine

1 week ago | saltscapes.com | Darcy Rhyno

The map says Freetown, but the community about 17 kilometres east of Summerside, Prince Edward Island, looks nothing like a town. Plunked in the middle of fields, farms, and pastures is a house, barn, and outbuildings. White post-and-rail fences frame the driveway. This is both Venture Stables and Bastarache Violins. A couple of horses watch from an adjacent paddock as I drive into the dooryard between the house and outbuildings tucked behind a wall of tall maples. Rock music blares from somewhere.
The Current That Connects Us

1 week ago | bluedotliving.com | Darcy Rhyno

At first it didn’t register. There, with sheep grazing on the shamrock green slopes of southwestern Ireland in the background, stood a palm tree. Doing a mental double take, I thought, how is a palm tree surviving so far north? Looking into it, I learned that the cabbage palm (Cordyline australis) is a species of palm-like tree native to New Zealand.
The sunrise after the storm

3 weeks ago | saltscapes.com | Darcy Rhyno

Igor Yushchenko grew up in Ukraine where he practised law. In 2011, Dalhousie University in Halifax accepted him into its master of laws program. Upon graduating, Yushchenko established his IY Law Firm, and now works with Noseworthy Di Costanzo Diab Law, both in Halifax. When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, he and his office focused on helping Ukrainians reach safety in Canada, about 150 families so far.
I conquered my fear while ‘hiking’ up a rock face on a via ferrata in Quebec. The views were awe-inspiring

2 months ago | ourwindsor.ca | Darcy Rhyno

“No. Absolutely not!” I say to my fearless guide, Alyssa Demurger, who is insisting I follow her lead and dangle in my harness, hands free, over the side of a narrow suspension bridge. We’re paused in the middle of this bridge, the highest point on the via ferrata in Quebec’s Parc national du Fjord-du-Saguenay, 130 metres over the treetops of Eternity Bay. “You must,” she insists, resting as idly as if she’s parked in an armchair.
I conquered my fear while ‘hiking’ up a rock face on a via ferrata in Quebec. The views were awe-inspiring

2 months ago | thespec.com | Darcy Rhyno

“No. Absolutely not!” I say to my fearless guide, Alyssa Demurger, who is insisting I follow her lead and dangle in my harness, hands free, over the side of a narrow suspension bridge. We’re paused in the middle of this bridge, the highest point on the via ferrata in Quebec’s Parc national du Fjord-du-Saguenay, 130 metres over the treetops of Eternity Bay. “You must,” she insists, resting as idly as if she’s parked in an armchair.
The compassionate scientist

2 months ago | saltscapes.com | Darcy Rhyno

Jackson Weir hopes to revolutionize scientific methods that can lead to new treatments of diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s. The 23-year-old Harvard student got started when a high school science fair led to a national gold medal and meetings with Prime Minister Trudeau and Dr. Arthur McDonald from Cape Breton, who won the 2015 Nobel Prize for physics. Although Weir graduated from the University of New Brunswick in 2021, he’s already received an alumni award.
Creating a Nursery for Beluga Whales

2 months ago | bluedotliving.com | Darcy Rhyno

The gleaming white back of an adult beluga whale arcs out of the water, exhales, then dives again. A smaller baby beluga follows close behind. The Zodiac slows and I hold my breath in unison with 40 other rubber-necking sightseers seated in orderly rows, straining for a view of the mother beluga and her calf. Dressed in puffy orange survival suits provided by the Croisières AML crew, we resemble a neatly arranged bowl of Cheetos.
How to Reserve the Best Campsites in Atlantic Canada – Explore Magazine

2 months ago | explore-mag.com | Darcy Rhyno

Two decades after camping for a weekend at backcountry Site 24 in Kejimkujik National Park in Nova Scotia, I can still feel the coarse lake sand beneath my feet, smell the wood smoke from our campfire wafting through the mature, mixed forest canopy and see the first light illuminating the morning mist over Minards Bay in Kejimkujik Lake. Four friends, two tent and the best campsite in the province is how I remember it.
3 Delicious Culinary Adventures in Canada’s Fields, Forests, and Bays

2 months ago | foodandwine.com | Darcy Rhyno

Photo: Courtesy of Bay of Fundy Adventures Food and adventure have always been inextricably linked for Canadians, with local ingredients found not just in farmer’s fields, but tucked amid Canada’s pristine waterways and landscapes. From an Indigenous-led foodways expedition in Saskatchewan to mushroom foraging in British Columbia to savoring salmon cooked over a bonfire after paddling in New Brunswick, these tasty trips guarantee you’ll eat well — and will probably sleep well, too.