We post recommended episodes each month. Watch this space for new episodes or go directly to the Walkabout YouTube channel and browse through episodes from four seasons.
Walkabout S5E5 - Hidden Adventures, Cape Breton
The only way to experience sunrise on a mountaintop is to hike in the dark, so Andrew sets off up Cape Breton's Salt Mountain before the sun rises. He then visits an important Indigenous site near Cape Dauphin.
Walkabout S5E2 - Shubenacadie Three Ways
Andrew heads out to explore the trails along the Shubenacadie waterway across winter, spring, and summer and discovers not only the history of the waterway, but also how the seasons change the trail.
Walkabout S5E1 - Parks On The Shore
Keji Seaside offers hikers the opportunity to see all sorts of wildlife and protects endangered species and coastal vistas. Across the harbour, Andrew also visits Thomas Raddall Provincial Park.
Walkabout S4E13 - Seal Island
Seal island may be the name, but there is so much more to it. Shipwrecks, birds, and more! We visit a place which is now largely under the care of the NS Nature Conservancy, which few have been to and few knew existed.
Walkabout S4E12 - Mountain Colours
Andrew goes north beyond the national park to climb mountain trails and enjoy the colours, smells, and sights of fall in Cape Breton. It is a journey you would not want to miss!
Walkabout S4E10 - Hidden Avonport
There is another Oak Island in NS. This one is in the Annapolis Valley. Here you will find the history of the Acadians and more! We also visit Blue Beach which contains fossils from millions of years ago.
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Walkabout S4E8 - Cliffs of Blomidon
Majestic cliffs seen from the highway on a clear day as you drive towards Wolfville. Cliffs which play host to Blomidon Provincial Park. We visit the well travelled trails at the campground and an old logging road.
Walkabout S4E9 - Shipwrecks and Quarries
Halifax Harbour has seen a lot of activity, and the bottom is littered with shipwrecks. Hiking along the shore we talk about what lies beneath and then visit a trail which crosses land that once played host to the quarries.
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A climb down a cliffside in search of gemstones along the Bay of Fundy leads to a rocky beach, a waterfall, and much more. On the other side of the cape, a trip through the forest leads to a hidden monument and sea caves.
Walkabout S4E4 - Wildfire
Wildfires can be devastating. In this episode viewers join a journey across a trail network spanning a forest that has recovered from a fire less than 20 years ago, as well as a trail network crossing a very recent fire in NS.
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Andrew searches for a ghost town in Cape Breton that was meant to
become a great Canadian city, planned around a coal mine that was
never built, after which he visits a trail near the last operating coal mine
on the island.
Walkabout S4E1 Waterfalls
In search of the tallest waterfall in the Maritimes at North River Falls, Andrew encounters some unexpected challenges. Later he journeys to the Humes River Wilderness Area, where a waterfall is carved out of the mountains.
Walkabout S3E12 Sable Island Part 1
In the first of a two-part episode, host Andrew Younger finds himself 300km southeast of Halifax on a sand dune rising above the Atlantic
Ocean and the Continental Shelf. A place called Sable Island. Known internationally for its wild horses, host Andrew Younger explores this windswept island to learn more about the horses and the other wildlife and flora that calls this remote place home.
Walkabout S3E9 Abandoned Roads
Hiking woodland trails is one thing, but some hiking destinations are former roads. Provincial roads, which are still legally roads. Host Andrew Younger visits three abandoned provincial roads and finds the remains of a home that was once the site of a grisly murder, while at another site no evidence remains of what was once a thriving town.
Walkabout S3E11 Cape Breton Highlands 
Cheticamp is the gateway for many to Cape Breton Highlands National Park. At the very entrance, two trails, Acadian and Buttereau, trace lands that were home to Acadian settlers until the 1930s, when the national park was created. Buttereau still hosts the ruins of old homesteads, while Acadian takes you up through a valley and up a mountain to spectacular views and three different habitats.
Walkabout S3E10 Hobsons Lake & Sackville River
Near Kearney Lake in Halifax, you can get lost in the woods along trails, which make you feel far from urban life. Walkabout heads out on a series of trails towards Ash Lake in the Birch Cove Blue Mountain Wilderness, before heading off to the Bedford Sackville Connector where a hike starts with a former military site at Fort Sackville and passes by a modern military installation before ending in Sackville.
Walkabout S3E8 York Redoubt & Herring Cove
York Redoubt is known by many as an old fortress location that is fun to explore along Halifax Harbour. But it's also home to many trails, which give visitors the chance to find even more evidence of the many different lives this fortress had. A little further out along the coast, the Herring Cove Bluffs also keep watch over the harbor from a protected area blessed with beautiful harbor vistas.
Walkabout S3E6 Tancook Island & Castle Rock
A short ferry ride from Chester finds you on Big Tancook Island and it’s where Walkabout starts this episode, by exploring the island and learning about the rich history of this island outpost, home to many families and a one room schoolhouse. Back on the mainland, host Andrew Younger heads to Castle Rock, a popular hike to the top of a rocky, and sometimes foggy, outcrop near East River.
Walkabout S3E2 Gold Brook & Cape Smokey
Western Cape Breton has changed a lot over the last century or so. Host Andrew Younger starts in the Margaree looking for evidence of an old gold mine in the Gold Brook Valley on this hike and follows up with a trip to the top of Cape Smokey for a short hike across the top of the mountain.
