Nova Scotia Water Adventures

Considering you’re never more than 40 kilometers (or 25 miles) from a coast in Nova Scotia, it’s hardly surprising that the province is renowned for its beaches. The diversity is astounding. 20 saltwater beaches include everything from the white sands of Queens to the red sands of the North Shore. The cobblestones of Halifax mark the beach with man-made beauty from this generation, while at Five Islands Provincial Park you can get a taste of geological formations over 250 million years old. It gives you a little perspective on how new those cobblestones really are.

The beaches aren’t just lovely to look upon though – Nova Scotia encourages you to get wet. There’s great surfing at Lawrencetown and some gorgeous paddling grounds around the shores of Cape Breton’s lakes. Take a turn around the province’s Sable Island, known for shipwrecks.

Adventure
If your adventuring blood feels like tempting fate, get over to the Shubenacadie River for the white-water rafting experience of your life. You’ll cruise along high gypsum cliffs among mudflats and sandbars until the tides of the Bay of Fundy pick you up and shake the teeth out of your head as you raft the highest tides in the world. Expect waves sixteen feet high, winds at 50 km (or 30 miles) per hour, and a heart rate pounding faster than a drum beating out a tattoo.

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