Shaw Island in August is a wonderful retreat just west of Halifax on the South Shore. With protected back bays and beautiful vistas, a summer on Shaw Island is filled with fresh fish, picking berries, and time on the water. We don’t have a picture of the cottage but in the above photo is a photo of the boat dock which is just a few feet from the cottage. The Gaff-rigged Schooner on the right of the photo was ours and a closer photo of the schooner appears below.
Shaw Island is located on Chester Basin. Great for sailing, fishing, and shopping. One interesting historical fact is located on Oak Island in the bottom of the map below. Oak Island is the site of the world’s longest running hunt for lost treasure. No one is sure exactly but various theories suggest that a Pirate, or the Knights Templar, or Francis Bacon created a mysterious Money Pit on the island, protected by a series of ingenious traps that would flood the tunnels, flooding the shafts with sea water to protect from treasure hunters. For hundreds of years treasure hunters have tried to recover the treasure, without success. But during the summer of 2011 the hunt in on again.
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