Seawinds Motel

10/21/2026

Alright, Nova Scotia! Let's see how many points you can rack up! 😂

I'm curious how many of us will score a perfect 15!

Drop your score below and tell us what should've made the list!

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10/21/2026

The cottages at Seawinds Motel offer more than a place to sleep. They give guests room to settle in, with the Annapolis Basin at the edge of the property and downtown Digby only steps away.

Leave the car parked and wander into town for shops, restaurants and fresh Digby scallops. Back at Seawinds, the guest observation deck is waiting with wide-open views of the Basin and a front-row seat to the changing tide.

During the warmer months, the hummingbird feeders become a gathering place of their own. Troy and Marika take great pride in the many hummingbirds they attract, adding another lovely detail to a stay by the water.

Open year-round, the Seawinds cottages make it easy to feel tucked away without being far from anything.

This week, we’re celebrating the local businesses that bring flavour, personality and heart to Digby County.

10/16/2026

The original Bluenose was not built simply to look beautiful in a harbour. Launched in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, on March 26, 1921, she was a working fishing schooner designed for the demanding waters of the North Atlantic. Yet this vessel became famous for something else: a remarkable racing record. Under Captain Angus J. Walters, Bluenose won competition after competition over 17 years, becoming a source of pride for Nova Scotians and Canadians far beyond the province. Her image later became an enduring national symbol, familiar to generations through the Canadian dime. The modern Bluenose II helps keep that maritime heritage visible, but the original's story belongs to fishermen, shipbuilders and a coastal community whose craftsmanship travelled the world. A simple working vessel became part of Canada's identity. 🇨🇦⛵

10/16/2026

10/08/2026

There is a fort in Nova Scotia that has been attacked, besieged, captured and recaptured more times than any other place in Canada — and it is still standing. Fort Anne, overlooking the Annapolis Basin, is the oldest extant fort in the country, and in 1917 it became Canada's very first National Historic Site. Genuinely, no other building in Canada has changed hands this many times and lived to tell about it.

The story begins in 1629, when the Scots built the first fort here and called it Charles Fort. Then the French took it. Then the English. Then the French again. For over eighty years, Annapolis Royal — then called Port-Royal — was the most contested piece of real estate in North America, attacked at least 19 times as France and Britain fought for control of Acadia. The current Vauban-style earthworks, those perfect star-shaped ramparts you can see from the air, were built by the French in 1702 — and even they were not enough.

In 1710, a British force under Francis Nicholson sailed into the basin with 3,600 men and laid siege for eleven days. The French governor, Daniel d'Auger de Subercase, surrendered the fort, and the town was renamed Annapolis Royal in honour of Queen Anne. Acadia became Nova Scotia. The Mi'kmaq, who had called this land home for millennia, watched yet another empire plant its flag — and within decades their Acadian neighbours would be deported in the Grand Dérangement of 1755.

What makes Fort Anne extraordinary is not just the warfare — it is the survival. The 1797 Officers' Quarters still stands. The powder magazine, built in 1708, is the oldest building in any Canadian national historic site. Four centuries of sieges could not erase it, and in 1917 Canada chose this fort — this battered, stubborn, beautiful fort — to be the first place ever given the title National Historic Site.

Does a fort that was conquered 19 times count as a survivor — or a monument to losing gracefully? Tell us what you think below.

10/08/2026

A nine-metre tower of solid rock, balanced on the edge of a cliff over the Bay of Fundy — and it has been standing there for roughly 200 million years.

Genuinely, the Balancing Rock on Long Island, off Nova Scotia's Digby Neck, is the most improbable sculpture in Canada. No one built it. No one placed it. It is simply what's left after 200 million years of erosion gave up trying.

The rock is basalt — frozen lava from the volcanic eruptions that tore the supercontinent Pangaea apart in the Triassic, about 201 million years ago. As the lava cooled, it cracked into vertical columns, the same geology that built the Giant's Causeway in Ireland. Then the Bay of Fundy — home of the highest tides on Earth — went to work. Wave after wave, storm after storm, the sea chewed away the softer rock around one stubborn column and left it standing: a 9-metre finger of basalt, perched on the cliff edge, leaning very slightly out over the water, daring gravity to do its worst.

Getting there is half the adventure: a 2.5-kilometre trail through coastal forest, then 235 wooden steps down the cliffside to the viewing platform. And then you see it — impossibly tall, impossibly thin, impossibly still there. Every visitor takes the same photo, holding their breath a little, as if the rock might choose that exact moment to finally topple.

It won't. Probably. The same tides that carved it are still at work, and one day — in ten thousand years, or a hundred thousand — the Balancing Rock will fall. Until then, it stands as the Bay of Fundy's quiet monument to patience: the sea tried for 200 million years, and the rock is still winning.

A 200-million-year-old middle finger to erosion, on the edge of Nova Scotia. Only in Canada.

Would you stand under it for the photo — and what's the most gravity-defying thing you've seen in Canada? Tell us below.

10/08/2026