From day trips to multi-day sightseeing excursions, there are a variety of nature and wildlife tours to choose from.
Naturalists and hikers behold. Discover northern gannets, seals and whales along the cliffs of Cape Breton. Bird lovers take advantage of guided tours to bird watching hotspots. Seek the shade in serene spruce woods and teeming wetlands.
Cape Perce Nature Tours
Two nature trails: one along the cliffs to a colony of kittiwakes, great cormorants and guillemots (spotting scopes to look for northern gannets, seals and whales); the other through spruce woods, past a bog, to the coastline at Louisbourg National Historic Site, to see spruce grouse, grey jays and boreal chickadees and beautiful bog flowers. Guide book.
Open year-round.
902-737-2684
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Locke's Island Birding & Hiking Tours
Guided tours of Nova Scotia's birding hotspots.
Open year-round.
902-656-3197
Walking the Wildside Nature Tours
Guided, interpreted natural history hikes. Birding a specialty, botany, geology. Magnificent coastlines, serene woodlands, teeming wetlands. For hikers with inquisitive minds.
Open Apr 15–Oct 30.
902-295-1749
naturewalks.ca
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