Arisaig Float wins Highland Games Parade first prize !!! Casket photo, thanks!
GUESTS FROM SCOTLAND
COME DOWN TO THE SHORE!!
THE LIGHTHOUSE
Lighthouse Canteen
- Closed til next summer
- The lighthouse – rebuilt in 2007 by the community – resembles the old lighthouse at The Point
- fantastic sunsets – still available
- OPEN next July
Dockside Cafe
- Closed for the year
- See you next summer
Lobster Interpretive Centre
- in the cafe
- interesting lobster display & film
- community memorabilia
- not available at this time
Concert at the Lighthouse
- Featuring: Great Variety of Performers
- including Hector MacIsaac and Junior Fraser, Barb Gillis, The MacGillivray Sisters – Laurel, Karla & Colette, Shane Arsenault, Nicholas Layes, Nathan Langley, Father Colin MacKinnon, and Aidan and Elsie Canning
- Sunday, July 30 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
- Arisaig Lighthouse Point (Rain Venue: Arisaig Community Hall)
ARISAIG PICNIC & INTERPRETIVE PARK
The Department of Natural Resources.
Tree Replanting
- The spring & fall plantings in 2016 by the Friends of Arisaig Park are starting to thrive.
- White pines and yellow birches planted in large numbers among the downed trees in the areas that have been cut down in response to the devastation of the spruce stand which has hit the park. These saplings should overtake the landscape as the cut trees go back to nature.
- More planting is underway to restore the original Acadian Forest
- This is a long-term project. The wide swaths of felled trees are planned fire-breaks. Many of them are showing new signs of life while others have yet to happen.
- The Park is for day use only. No overnight camping.
The eventual goal is to recreate an Acadian Forest environment, with only trees that grew naturally in Nova Scotia before mankind arrived.
News from the wharf…..
Along the North Shore the villages of Knoydart, McArra’s Brook, Arisaig, Doctor’s Brook, Malignant Cove and West Maryvale are linked through the wharf at Arisaig Point and the Community Hall across the Sunrise Trail (Hwy 245) from Arisaig’s St Margaret’s Church.
The recently completed Lobster Interpretation Centre and Dockside Cafe (2013) as well as the Arisaig Provincial Day Park unite the communities through various activities.
The Lobster Fishery
- With 23 boats and their lobster fishermen actively hauling in May and June each year.
- Some boats continue to fish for other catch during the summer.
- Bluefin tuna charters available – check the Business page.
The Marina
Opening Day Madness
- 45.761 N x 62.171 W We are on Atlantic Daylight Time.
- After fishing season, boat slips are available through the summer
- repair work being done this summer continues into the fall
- The great beach and Dockside Cafe are close at hand, open daily in summer
- Contact: Arisaig Harbour Authority President: Clarence Arbuckle 902-863-6474 arbucklec@yahoo.ca or Stevie MacInnis 902-863-1509 http://www.macinnisbluefintunacharters.com
- Launching and Dockage fees at usual rates. You may register in the Lighthouse Canteen & arrange fuel purchases. (11am to 8pm). At this time we can only accept cash payment
Check out the interesting article highlighting Arisaig and area in Out and About in NS. The article was written by Denise Davis ……… click on: Visit Arisaig
WHERE WE ARE:
Arisaig, Nova Scotia, Canada
