Fundy Shore and Annapolis Valley

Discovering Great Whales, Fine Wines and the Highest Tides

Along the awesome Fundy shoreline and over the fields of the Annapolis Valley, there lies a whole world of adventure incorporating everything from food and wine extravaganzas, living history to extreme backcountry camping. Annapolis Valley dykelands, orchards, and vineyards rolling across acre after picture-perfect acre to the shores of the Minas Basin and Bay of Fundy have inspired everyone from the poets of the past to some of today's finest chefs and vintners. You'll understand the lure as you tour charming Victorian towns and explore overflowing farm markets and the incomparable scenery.

You’re going to make some exceptionally cool discoveries too. Like the pumpkin patch of the late Howard Dill, the undisputed king of competitive pumpkin growing, whose garden produces orange monsters in the 600kg (1400lb.) range.  And all the interesting and friendly animals who live at Oaklawn Farm Zoo in Aylesford. Adding to your epic vacation experience, the Fundy Shore holiday thrills start when the world’s highest tides come rocking and rolling into the Bay of Fundy twice a day. You can walk the ocean floor at low-tide, roaming around spectacular geological formations or looking for fossils in oceanside cliffs. Ride the roller coaster waves created by the natural phenomenon known as the Tidal Bore. The name is rich with irony, because boring it’s definitely not.

The unique marine environment is as popular with whales as it is with people.  Fifteen species of whales spend their summer vacation in the Bay of Fundy – so book a whale watching tour and feel your heart rate rising when a whale breaches right alongside.  History here is measured not in years or even centuries, but eras and eons. A look at the stunning sea stacks known as the Three Sisters at Cape Chignecto Provincial Park, or the footprints left behind by the creatures of the Coal Age in the strata of the Joggins Cliffs puts our own “fast-foodage” in perspective!

Check out the legends of Nova Scotia’s First People, the Mi’kmaq, for an ancient interpretation of the geological and marine wonders of the Fundy Shore.  In these parts, the first settlers who arrived with Samuel de Champlain and set up camp at historic Port Royal in the 1600s are considered the new kids on the block.

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