Canada's insider blog

The Bay of Fundy is Canada’s happy hunting grounds for rockhounds. The Bay’s giant tides work like nature’s rock pick, chiselling away at shoreline cliffs and revealing rich seams of zeolite crystals and semi-precious stones – agates and amethysts are among the top finds. It’s just another reason why the Bay of Fundy has been nominated as one of the world’s New7Wonders of Nature. Here are more places that rock in one of Canada’s most extraordinary prehistoric playgrounds:

Gemstones aren’t the only treasures coveted in Fundy. Fossil collecting is just as popular. Visit the Fundy Geological Museum in Parrsboro, Nova Scotia for a walk through a half-billion years of history and a chance to see some of Canada’s oldest dinosaur bones. Interpretive staff will help you search for “Coal Age” fossils at the phenomenal sea-carved Joggins Fossils Cliffs, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Or take a field trip to Stonehammer Geopark on the New Brunswick side of the Bay, where the rock formations tell stories of ancient oceans, earthquakes and volcanoes, spanning the Precambrian era to the Ice Age.

The new Fundy Discovery Aquarium, opening this summer, in Saint Andrews NB, reveals another take on Fundy’s natural wealth: its rich trove of underwater sea life.

Bay of Fundy Tourism

VoteMyFundy.com