Sometimes i WISH i was in Bora-Bora for a little while - i can take the cold,
but certainly don't mind a bit of heat every now and then :--}.

Regarding "boreal" as it applies to the east coast of North America, the faunal
province from New England to southern New Brunswick and SW Nova Scotia is
referred to as "Acadian", after the french Acadians who once populated the
northern part of this territory (ok, there are some still here, but there used
to be a lot more!): it is charactarized by mixed forests - spruce, fir, maple,
oak, birch, poplar, etc.  Some also carry this label through to the marine
province which includes the Scotian Shelf and the Southern  Gulf of St. Lawrence
- the warm pocket around PEI. True Boreal territory extends from the central
Gulf to Ungava Bay, including all of Newfoundland and Labrador, although there
is at least one boreal fauna marine "outpost" or remnant off SW Nova Scotia that
i found a few years ago, but which nobody around here cares about one scintilla
- perhaps because i never published: - "If it isn't published, it may as well
not exist"!!

STILL from the Great Wet North,
Ross.