Exploring Natural Cape Breton. Walking the Wild Side Nature Tours offers guided, interpreted natural history hikes/walks through magical woodlands, beside vibrant wetlands and along coastal trails with legendary views. Birding a specialty, botany and geology.

Join Bethsheila Kent, a birder with more than 30 years experience and a self-taught naturalist with a formal background in botany and geology for an exciting and informative hiking/walking tour of the abundant natural wonders of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, including the world-famous Cabot Trail and the biologically significant Cape Breton Highlands National Park. Just bring along camera, binoculars and favourite field guides and you're ready for an extraordinary Cape Breton adventure! Birders can choose from a variety of habitats in all seasons - what's on your wish list? Amateur botanists will marvel at the biodiversity our Island has to offer - wild flowering plants, ferns and their allies, mosses, lichens, mushrooms and related fungi and trees, trees, trees! Week-end geologists can test their skills at identifying some of the oldest rocks in the Province! And the bonus? The breathtaking views and magnificent vistas for which our Island is famous.

Sandy beaches, rugged, rocky coastlines and easy to traverse gravel shores. Tidal pools and sandbars. Waterfowl and shorebirds, dabblers, divers, raptors, gulls and terns. Fossil bearing rock, fabulous flora and the occasional seal cavorting in the pristine waters of the north Atlantic

Mixed forest, mature hardwoods and magnificent conifers. Serene trails beneath an expansive canopy, beautiful waterfalls, winding rivers and streams. Fox, moose and snowshoe hare; reptiles and amphibians, diverse plant species of forest floor (ferns galore and amazing fungi!), songbirds and groundbirds

Interior and coastal habitats. Diverse plant species - orchids to pitcher plants, sedum to sea lavender. Songbirds, groundbirds, raptors and waders. Small mammals, reptiles and amphibians To book your WALKING the WILDSIDE Nature Tours - Exploring Natural Cape Breton adventure contact Bethsheila Kent by

E-mail: birding@naturewalks.ca Snail mail: 4296 Highway #105 (South Haven) R. R. 2, Baddeck Nova Scotia B0E 1B0 (Canada) Telephone: 902-295-1749