Zephyr Isle: The Big Picture. . . Unseen
 
My Window On The World:
Ternstyle Opportunity

Greetings from Newfoundland and Labrador! The Rock Of My Salvation. Moonlit splendor. Daylight wonder. Home. Zephyr Isle, a.k.a. McIver's Island, is the reality of whom I am, from whence I've come; and, like it, or, not, where I am headed, nose to the west wind. It symbolizes, too, the collective us. One. Two. Three. All. Together. Forever. Winging it. One day at a time. The Town of McIvers (pop. 571, ota), Bay of Islands, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. And, now, you. Sharing our world. Thank you for coming. Welcome!
One good tern deserves another
Canadian Wildllife Service officials tell us that the perpetual nature of our zephyr-swept islet as a 'chosen' Northern Summer breeding ground for Common and Arctic tern speaks well of the good folk of McIvers. Few hinterlands persist so close to a human community - situated a scant 100 metres from the town's near shoreline, my proximal oceanfront property - for so long. In fact, federal scientists affirm that the long-standing local practice by local people of burning off dead, winter-beaten hay and scrub brush off the island each spring ensures prime habitat for the nesting birds. Rebirth in fire. Inspired! 		Good and fruitful spirits re-tern each Mother's Day

God's creatures always fascinated my late mother, Edith Rebecca (nee Stewart) White. My dad, George Tomes White, was a certifiable engineer, a man always enthralled with how stuff worked, and who it was that made it so. They loved one another. I, David Joseph (Michael Robbins Stewart) White, their only child, am pretty sure they'd delight in this undertaking, as they did with almost all I tried. As a writer, self-proclaimed visionary and the kind of quirky character that I am, I find comfort in a belief that the spirits of our town's dear departed inhabit the ever-lively annual re-tern to the shorebirds' breeding sanctum every Mother's Day, as they have in the first full week of May each year in living memory, for decades untold. By Father's Day, new life abounds on our two-acre island rock.

Imagine!

Tourists re-tern for closeups
Some 2,000 aerobatic tern now make McIvers Island their summer home. Breeding pairs set up their love nest in mid- to late-May, hatchlings appear in June and fledglings take to the air in July. Come mid-August,the families head south, some of them flying 10,000 kilometres and more, as far as Antarctica.

McIvers is located on Admiral Palliser's Trail, a.k.a. North Shore Bay of Islands Route 440. The 40-kilometre stretch of paved coastal highway opens access to six townships, numerous natural attractions and nautical themes, as well as to extra terrestrial adventures in its backcountry wilderness. The area was named for Sir Hugh Palliser, knight of the British Admiralty and a former 18th-Century governor of Newfoundland. A mentor of the well-known Captain James Cook, Admiral Palliser once patrolled old fishing treaty rights with gunships around Bay of Islands and along the western Newfoundland shore.
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The object of this Website - a freebee made possible in whole and in part by the inspired work and inspiring hobbies of people like just you and me - is to witness the glory of God's creation and power He affords us in the presentation of these technologies. You are viewing this page because you, like I, believe in all that which we take upon ourselves to do, or we wouldn't do it. The feeling of accomplishment in pursuing and finishing something we hope will last is its own reward. We appreciate 1Colony.com for the free sitebuilder, and thank Malcolm Wells and Scott Hacker for these front-side photographs. I also offer this site as a 'ternstyle of opportunity' for all who may come find something useful in our favoured links, there on the left. Check IT out! Come next spring, maybe, all of rural Bay of Islands will have broadband Internet services available. The velocity of our understanding must be brought to speed as well. I offer this start. We have ignition!