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Step foot onto Canada’s oldest National Historic Site and one of the most hotly contested pieces of land on the entire continent at Fort Anne. For centuries, a succession of Scottish, French, First Nations and English settlers clashed over this prize on the banks of Nova Scotia’s Annapolis River. Today, visitors can walk the earthen walls, explore the 1797 Officers’ Read more…
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The Fundy Geological Museum displays an ancient world and some of the oldest dinosaur bones in Canada. Meet some of the ancient creatures that lived here millions of years ago: the world’s first reptiles, early dinosaurs, giant dragonflies, an ancestor of frogs and a sow-bug-like creature as long as a baseball bat. So many great fossils! Read more…
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Located on Nova Scotia’s Bay of Fundy, the Joggins Fossil Cliffs are Canada’s 15th UNESCO World Heritage Site. These magnificently exposed layers of rock reveal the world’s most complete fossil record of life in the Coal Age when lush forests covered Joggins and much of the world’s tropics, 300 million years ago. Read more…
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We are committed to supplying expertly-guided sea kayaking tours to all our guests. Age or level of experience is not important. NovaShores Adventures believes in low-impact tourism where we leave no trace, especially in the sensitive preservation area surrounding the Cape Chignecto Park area of the Bay of Fundy. Read more…
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Hinterland Adventures’ canoe tours and tidal kayaking tours take place within the UNESCO Southwest Nova Scotia Biosphere Reserve . We celebrated our 20th year as an outdoor adventure company in 2015, and specialize in kayaking tours on the tidal Sissiboo River and in St. Mary’s Bay in southwestern Nova Scotia and wilderness canoe tours. Read more…
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Petit Passage is owned and operated by the Theraiult family of Digby Neck. Craig Theriault is the Captain of the Passage Provider. He has twenty years experience finding whales and has lobster and scallop fished these waters since he was fourteen years old. His father, Harold has been on the waters of the Bay of Fundy all his life. He Read more…
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The waters at the mouth of the Bay of Fundy from the ledges off Brier Island right up the Digby Neck are important feeding areas for many species of cetaceans (whales, dolphins, porpoises), seals and a wide variety of seabirds. Most common species seen are the Minke, humpback and fin whales, harbour porpoise and Atlantic white-sided dolphins. Right whales are Read more…
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Mariner Cruises has been offering Nova Scotia whale watching and birding tours off Brier Island, in the Bay of Fundy since 1994. We invite you to join us for an exciting sea adventure from the Whale Watching Capital of Nova Scotia! Finback whales, minke whales and harbour porpoises are the first to arrive in the spring. In June, the humpbacks Read more…
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As well as being a thrilling adventure, our cruises yield important information on endangered or rare species of whales like the Humpback, Finback and Right Whales, and on other species of Cetaceans (whales, dolphins and porpoises) and on seabirds. A portion of whale watch sales is contributed to our research. There is a trip suited for every age. Choose between Read more…
