Spring 2025

Looking for a place to launch along the coast here in Nova Scotia? The Coastal Water Trail map shows over 600 sites around Nova Scotia suitable for paddlers. Each site comes with directions, GPS, amenities on site, photos, landmarks, some route suggestions and more. You can find this map on our web page. The information of these sites has been collected and updated over the past 15 years. If you find the launch info at a site has changed please notify our administrator at admin@ckns.ca. Happy Paddling!

East Coast Outfitters Paddling Club Every Tuesday for the last 20 years, we have hosted a paddling club every evening. Throughout those years, we have made new padding friends, new guides, and some of those connections last to this day. If you are a local paddler and are looking for a group of people who share in the enjoyment of paddling and learning how to paddle, we invite you to join our Paddle Club. Here are some of the perks that go along with being part of the club! Paddle with any of our Daily special evening paddles. More time [...]

Almost all of our province's beaches are public, both on tidal and non-tidal waters.The only exception is if the adjacent landowner owns a pre-1867 water lot. Those are very rare, and almost all are located near the centres of established communities such as Dartmouth Cove, Bedford Basin, and the Northwest Arm.  Our lake and river bottoms are deemed to be provincial Crown Land. The boundary on non-tidal shorelines is the mean annual high water mark, on tidal shorelines it is the mean high tide mark. In practice, this may be difficult to establish, especially on marshy shorelines, but basically beaches [...]