One of the best ways to Explore the Eastern Shore of Nova Scotia is to meander along the coastal road without worrying too much about getting to your destination. It is after all, all about the journey! So pack a few things and take a thermos of freshly ground organic coffee and some freshly baked muffins and head down Hwy 7 to the Eastern Shore for a road trip.
One of the remarkable things about this coastal road is just how much of it runs along the shoreline giving you expansive ocean views. It is a meandering road that twists and turns around the inlets, bays and coves of the rocky shoreline. Sparsely populated along the route, it is a road less travelled for the most part but one that remains hauntingly beautiful. With a little sign posting it would be easier to navigate but alas that is not the case and we are inclined to use technology to its best advantage to help navigate the shoreline. So we are going to give you ten good reasons why you should take a trip down the Eastern Shore road to Canso, with our blog.
- The drive affords fabulous ocean views.
- There are some of Nova scotia’s best places to stay and eat along the Eastern Shore, from casual to fine dining, as well as numerous places where you can stop and buy fresh clams and mussels and the occasional lobster pound as well. The shore also has two excellent smokehouses, one in Tangier, (Willy Krauch’s) and one in Sherbrooke, (St. Mary’s River Smokehouse) where you can purchase the gourmet items for your picnic or if you have a portable refridgerator you can fill it up with delectable items.
- For kayakers there are numerous protected inlets and bays along the Eastern Shore. Coastal adventures at Tangier is one of the Nova Scotia’s leading kayak outfitters and provides training, paddling excursions, and kayak rentals. There are several other fabulour kayaking spots from Liscombe, Whitehead, Little Dover, Canso, Fox Island Main, to Guysborough. In fact the shoreline is something of a best kept secret for kayakers.
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