Blue Diamond Tours
207-4 Caxton Close B3M 4J5 Halifax, NS, Canada

Fall lobster season on the Bay of Fundy. Taken Nov 23, 2020 off of Green's Point Lighthouse, Letete, NB.

From our friends at "The Friends of Sable Island Society" : The first volume of "Sable Island Stories" is now ready to purchase! For the next three months it is only available online from Amazon. You can purchase a Kindle eBook for yourself ($9.99 CAD) and order paperbook copies ($20 CAD) as gifts to be mailed directly to recipients around the world. All proceeds will support our charitable programs. ... Full details are available on our website at https://www.sableislandfriends.ca/sable-island-stories-vol/

Today, November 20, I arrived safely to my final destination on the #BostonCommon. The City of Boston gave me a very warm welcome. Be sure to watch me light up... the sky on Thursday, December 3 on the WCVB Channel 5 Boston at 8:00 p.m. (AST) or 7:00 p.m. (EST): https://novascotia.ca/treeforboston . REM Transport Ltd Boston Parks and Recreation Department See more

Christmas 2020 has arrived at the gazebo in St. Bernard's Park in Enfield, Nova Scotia.

What a bore! Yesterday Friday November 20th while on an errand to Truro, N.S. from Eastern Passage , N.S. (Roughly a forty-five-minute drive from Halifax) me and my boys decided to check out the new natural playground at the Salmon River Tidal Bore park. The park had started construction in 2018 however for most of our travelers this wasn’t on their list of things to do however from time to time and all things considered some clients requested to view the tricky scheduled ti...dal bore at this site. As a parent I was extremely impressed as this natural park isn’t something I’ve seen in the province of Nova Scotia. Parent/Toddler Swings, musical instruments, A full play kitchen and what could be better than having to take one of three slides just to get into the park and all the while surrounded by the Salmon River, The red iron rich Fundy soil and its natural wonder of the tidal bore. Did I mention the windmills in the background? For those of you not aware, Truro’s marvellous tidal event had daily draw of tourists and locals alike in our Pre-Covid pandemic times. The tides usually come in and out over six-hour cycles, but the top of the bay near the Salmon River’s mouth is shallow and narrow. This shallow and narrow bay entrance near Truro causes the tide to go from low too high in just one hour. At the same time, water from the Salmon River flowing out into the sea is pushed back by the strong tide. As the incoming tide reverses the river’s flow, it fills up the watercourse like a bath tub in a tidal ‘bore’ wave. The wave can be roughly one metre high on some days. While not as dramatic as some tidal bores elsewhere in the world such as China’s Qiantang River however when combined with the other wonders that Nova Scotia and the Bay of Fundy offers such as Burntcoat Head Park, Hall’s Harbor and other sites and accompanying communities I believe it’s something that can be found in no other place. The wave comes in at set times every day and in our time and as mentioned before the pandemic hundreds of tourists line the Salmon River’s banks every summer to watch the spectacle, while during our time there the park’s lot did have a few visitors however it seemed it was locals trying to catch a quiet lunch break in their vehicle before returning to work. As a full-time stay-at-home dad now, it gives gentle reflection on the state of tourism for our part of the world and its effect on operators like us and others, it draws the thought that we do hope everyone is safe and well in health mentally and physically to enjoy days like this. In the quiet parts of our season both and the beginning of the year of last and the end we took videos of the bore which you can watch here: April : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgq2LISslIU September : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgq2LISslIU

Ryan- The Nova Scotia tree for Boston from Richmond County is on its way!!! This year the tree is going by boat!