Digby, Canada Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

It's around 30km from St Bernard to the fishing port of DIGBY , whose workaday centre spreads over a hilly headland that pokes out into the Annapolis Basin. The latter is connected to the Bay of Fundy by a narrow channel known as the Digby Gut, thereby subjecting Digby harbour to the swirling effects of the Fundy tides – and it's the pocket-sized harbour, with its rickety wooden piers, which is the most appealing part of town. Otherwise, Digby is notable for two things: its smoked herrings – or "Digby chicks" – chewy, dark and salty delicacies on sale beside the north end of the … more »