Allen, Carla

Carla Allen is an award-winning reporter for The Vanguard, a community newspaper in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. Some of her happiest moments have been at sea, including working for a week banding lobsters on her cousin's boat, the Scalded Witch; sailing across the Gulf of Maine aboard an 80-foot ketch in the Yarmouth Cup race; travelling from Yarmouth to Bar Harbor with Spike Hampson as part of his riverboat odyssey; or simply paddling about the local harbour in her kayak.