easeful rest
With its wild beauty, regional character, and historical depth, here you’ll find a retreat for surfers, writers, artists, or contemplatives – or a memorable vacation for families. This rugged land and its seas have been home to the Mi’kmaq people for 13,000 years. We are grateful now to rest here in the Kespukwitk (“end of flow”) region.
We are on a point facing south into the Atlantic Ocean. Stay here and rise early for a gentle sunrise, then watch each glorious sunset transform the land and sky.
Walk out from our home and weave your way through West Head’s marshy grasses and wild blueberry bushes to a rocky shore of granite boulders. On a stormy day you’ll struggle to stand upright, the sea heavy and winds roaring. At night, you’ll look into the dark night from our deck: a sailor’s flashing beacon, constellations. The Milky Way as you may never have seen it.
Along nearby Crescent Beach you can collect shells, skirting jellyfish and briny seaweed. Surf salty waves big and small. After a full day, snug under blankets and listen to the night: coyotes, owls, the ocean. Deep silence.
From Middle English brim, from Old English brim (“surf, flood, wave, sea, ocean, water, sea-edge, shore”), from Proto-Germanic *brimą (“turbulence, surge; surf, sea”), from Proto-Germanic *bremaną (“to roar”).
Cognate with Icelandic brim (“sea, surf”), Old English brymm, brym (“sea, waves”), Ancient Greek βρέμω (brémō, “roar, roar like the ocean”, verb).