Heritage Festival

July 23 to July 31, 2010

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Nature/Adventure Tour

 

Guided Tour #2:
Nature / Adventure
($4 per person; no tax)

Late summer is an ideal time to take the Nature/Adventure Guided Tour; the land is bountiful with berries, such as with these gooseberries..
Late summer is an ideal time to take the Nature/Adventure Guided Tour;
the land is bountiful with berries, such as with these gooseberries.

Seabirds… whales… rare and endangered plants… coastal limestone barrens… icebergs… hiking trails… moose… caribou… amazing geology….
and the adventure has just begun!

The Nature / Adventure Guided Tour will take you into an outdoor enthusiast’s paradise. Leaving the Bird Cove Interpretation Centre, a gentle hike will first bring you to Flat Bottom; a saltwater estuary. The geological formations here MUST be touched! You can literally run your fingers ‘inside’ the scars that glaciers left approximately 11,000 years ago, as they receded from this place.

 

Geological formations are but a touch away!
Geological formations are but a touch away!

Crossing over the estuary on a beautiful wooden bridge, with your tour guide you will venture onto the Dog Peninsula; once known as Dog Island in another time. From here…you will be inclined to make a few choices…or you may have to stay for a week to enjoy it all. Where do your interests lie? Plant identification and interpretation…rock hounding…hiking…beach combing…nature photography…past cultures????


A two hour hike out on the Dog Peninsula, with our tour guide, will reward you with an opportunity to touch an 18th century navigational/chart making aid.

You will discover a little bit of each, as the Nature /Adventure Guided Tour meanders along the trails and beaches of the Dog Peninsula. A two hour hike out on the Dog Peninsula with our tour guide will reward you with an opportunity to touch one of Captain James Cook's cairnes, which he used for sightings when charting these waters in 1764. Geological formations are but a touch away!

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