East Coast Outfitters

Looking for a gift for Dad? This Sunday June 17th is Father’s Day and we are offering a Father’s Day Special: Dad’s Paddle Free! Must be accompanied by proof of fatherhood. Good towards any rental or half day guided tour. Please call in advance to book your spot. 852-2567!

Yoga on our wharf followed by a Kayak tour. Starting Sunday June 3rd and continuing for every Sunday this summer and fall, Sharon Munson, owner of Nice View Yoga, will be leading a yoga class on our wharf followed by a kayak tour with one of our guides. Call us at 852-2567 to register. If […]

Come play in Halifax’s greatest ocean playground with us!  East Coast Outfitters offers a unique new camp for kids to explore, learn, create, and have fun!  Get out of the city and experience awesome activities like:  discovery hikes, art projects, ocean explorations, camp games, scavenger hunts, and OF COURSE play many kayak games and chances […]

With the new season fast upon us we need to get those floating docks in ASAP! The floating docks have been in and out of the water for 10 years now, so it’s about time for some new wood along the bottom of the docks. These docks make it easy for us to get our […]

Today is Boom Truck Day down at East Coast Outfitters. At high-tide a large boomtruck rolls down to Lower Prospect and plucks the floats and ECO boat out of the water for winter storage. This is no easy feat, and has to be done quickly before the tide recedes. The removal of the boat and […]

Atlantic Paddle Symposium 2011 – Committed 2 the Core Blogspot ECO Guides, Kirk, Eleanor and I had the opportunity to attend the 2011 Atlantic Paddle Symposium up in Tera Nova National Park Newfoundland. We set out from Nova Scotia a few days early with the hopes of catching some icebergs off of twillingate. Kirk had […]

With relatively low water temperatures and comfortably warm air temperatures early spring in Nova Scotia brings us numerous banks of fog. This makes Dead Reckoning navigation an essential skill needed to safely kayak offshore. This last weekend the 2011 Guides in Training headed out to Hearn island for a night time navigation exercise. We were […]

May 12th the residents of Lower Prospect, Nova Scotia set out to clean up their community. Over 30 bags of trash, and a few tires were picked up from along the road. The cleanup crew managed to clean all the way from the cross roads to the government wharf in one afternoon. After the cleanup […]

Sunday evening and the weekend is over, and what a beautiful weekend we had. Our season started off with the crack of delicious lobster being eaten. Saturday we had a wonderful group from a Dalhousie University conference come out for a little bit of kayaking, a breathtaking nature tour to the sandy cove lighthouse topped […]

With less then a week left before the season opens we are all getting on the water more and more. Over the last week a good number of ECO guides and some of the guides in training headed down to Lower Prospect and checked to see what has changed over the winter months. We managed […]