Category: Natural

Bradley Beach, New Jersey, United States

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Bradley Beach is a borough in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. It took the name from James A. Bradley, the developer responsible for the creation of the place. It has a population of a little more than 4.000 inhabitants but in summer it can reach 30.000. There is a boardwalk with only a few places to buy something for drink or eat but you can have good restaurants in town. The beach is clean and the water is crystal. There are lifeguards and while they’re in service, there’s only a place where you can surf. You must pay to park along the boardwalk but you can park for free among the houses in town and walk a little bit. You have to pay the entrance to the beach too.

Tips

It’s a little bit crowded in weekends so if you go by car, try to go early cause later will be hard to find a place to park near the beach.
New Jersey Transit offers rail service connecting Bradley Beach to Hoboken Terminal, Newark Penn Station, Secaucus Junction and New York Penn Station on the North Jersey Coast Line. They also offer a bus service that connect the borough and Philadelphia.

Botanical Garden of Padron, La Coruña, Spain

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The Botanical Garden of Padron is next to the N-550 road in the province ofBotanical Garden of Padron, autonomous community of Botanical Garden of Padron. It contains many species of plants, some of them highly developed and mature, being a rarity or a singular plant in Galicia. The garden date from the first decades of the nineteenth century constructed of a farm belonging to the Counts of San Juan. It was built in the pattern characteristic of the time, mixing Italian, English and French styles. The garden has a herbarium, greenhouse and new areas were added to the original structure. We find many monuments like the statue of the fourteenth century of the Galician troubadour known as “The lover” or another as the Castelao bust. There are almost 300 plant species that come from different parts of the world. Many social and cultural events of the village of Padron take place in the garden.

Tips

The garden is a beautiful place to walk, relax on a bench reading something or just enjoy nature and the variety of plants found there.

Observing geese at Baie-du-Febvre, Quebec, Canada

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Baie-du-Febvre a small village in Quebec, Canada, is located in the World Biosphere Reserve of Lake Saint-Pierre. It’s located on route 132 on the Navigators’ Path between the cities of Sorel and Nicolet.  The village has a interpretive center that welcome ornithologists and tourists.

Baie-du-Febvre is ideal for snow geese observation since it is the largest spring staging area of this species. Indeed, every spring more than 400,000 snow geese, 50,000 Canada geese and several species of birds and ducks visit the floodplains of Lake Saint-Pierre.