6 Hours - $270.00
This is one of my most popular tours any time of year. With a variety of shorelines, countryside, wildlife and vegetation you would have to go to Cape Breton to beat this part of Canada for sheer beauty.
We leave Halifax via Hwy.101 at Grande Pre . With the Blomidon Peninsula looming in the background we visit the Acadian Chapel and Interpretative Centre which commemorates Acadian settlement and culture from the earliest European settlement until the 1755 expulsion immortalised by Longfellow's epic poem Evangeline.
From Grande Pre we continue through sea-level agricultural communities like Habitant and Blomidon, and fishing wharves such as those at Kingsport and Pereaux. Then its straight up the hill to the Scott's Bay Road. The hill is 700 feet above sea level, but about 5 miles to the right at Scott's Bay we descend to the Government Wharf at sea-level. If the tide is out you'll see boats grounded up to 35 feet below the wharf.
Backtracking a bit, we climb the mountain once more and stop briefly at the Blomidon Lookoff before back roading it to Hall's Harbour. On the drive out of Hall's Harbour I have seen numerous pheasant and bald eagles. Cresting North Mountain one more time, the entire Annapolis Valley is laid out for us in all its magnificent splendour. The heart of the Valley is the town of Kentville, an eccentric little burg if there ever was one. We pass through this quaint old town on our back to the 101 and Halifax.
Guaranteed fun and good memories.
