Photo: Tourism Nova Scotia / Ian Selig On a map, Sherbrooke Village looks like the natural next step after Sheet Harbour. Same highway, same coastline, just a little farther along. That “little farther” is where the day changes. If you take the coastal route along Highway 7, by the time you reach Sherbrooke you’ve been…
Photo: Dennis G. Jarvis via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 Sheet Harbour is where the Eastern Shore stops being an easy beach errand and starts feeling like a real drive. Lawrencetown, Martinique, and Musquodoboit Harbour are places you can decide on at breakfast and still be home for an early dinner. Sheet Harbour sits well…
Taylor Head Provincial Park, Spry Bay, Eastern Shore. Photo credit: Tourism Nova Scotia / Photographer: @daveyandsky Taylor Head is where the Eastern Shore stops being a quick coastal nibble and starts asking for the whole afternoon. Taylor Head Provincial Park sits on a rocky peninsula near Spry Bay, pushing several kilometres out into the Atlantic….
Aerial view of the Musquodoboit Trailway and wilderness trails on Nova Scotia’s Eastern Shore. Photo: Tourism Nova Scotia / Acorn Art & Photography The Musquodoboit Trailway starts gently enough to fool you. You step onto a flat old railbed, the river slides past, and everything feels like a pleasant stroll with good scenery. Then you…
The restored 1918 station at the Musquodoboit Harbour Railway Museum, right where the trailway begins.Photo: Stephanie Clay / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 Musquodoboit Harbour is not trying to be Lunenburg with a different postal code. There’s no colourful waterfront strip and no row of galleries. If that’s what you pictured, this probably isn’t the…
Featured image: Paulo O / CC BY 2.0 If you’re in Halifax and want to see open Atlantic coast without committing your whole day to the drive, Lawrencetown Beach is usually the easy answer. It sits just east of Dartmouth, close enough that you can decide over breakfast and still be standing on the beach…
On a map, the Eastern Shore looks like an easy win from Halifax. Head east, find the coast, pick a beach. Done. Then you notice how far the road keeps going. Lawrencetown is barely out of the city. Taylor Head is a real drive. Sherbrooke is a different kind of day altogether. The Eastern Shore…
Most first trips out of Halifax point the car southwest. Peggy’s Cove, Mahone Bay, Lunenburg: that route has been photographed so often it practically plans itself. Point the car east instead and you get a different kind of trip. The Eastern Shore Nova Scotia coastline runs out along the Atlantic from the edge of Dartmouth,…
Fall does something to people. The leaves start turning and suddenly everyone’s talking about the Valley, the South Shore, a loop around Cape Breton before the colour’s gone. That’s a fine plan on the right day. It’s a terrible plan on a Tuesday with four hours free and a kid who fell asleep in the…
Fall in Halifax is unpredictable enough that a good chunk of your plan depends on weather you can’t control. Sunny forecast, and the coast is calling. When a rainy day in Halifax shows up instead, your Peggy’s Cove morning, your leaf-peeping drive, or even the Halifax itinerary you built for good weather all start to…