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Nova Scotia has all the major rock types in the world. The red rocks at Cape Chignecto Provincial Park have been formed and rounded by aeons of changing tides, sculpted into soft shapes and curves. I hike for three hours in the park, starting at high tide. By the time I make my way down to the beach the tide is out and I can return along the water.
For rock hounds and those interested in life as it was 315 million yeas ago, the Bay of Fundy area is the place to be and visits to the Fundy Geological Museum in Parrsboro and the Joggins Fossil Cliffs (a UNESCO World Heritage Site) in Nova Scotia are a must.
I must admit that rocks don’t rock me and that I am more interested in living species than long-dead dinosaurs. However, I do think it is pretty neat to know that the world’s oldest reptile fossils are found here, that you can see 315 million-year-old fossilized ferns the size of trees sticking out of the sea cliffs, and that fossils from both before and after the great extinction 200 million years ago (end of Triassic period and beginning of Jurassic period) are found here.
