Years of  rockhounding & searching the beaches and cutting stones have taught me the best way to reveal each stone's unique, hidden, inner beauty to almost miraculously transform the gem stones into treasure. When in the area , you will be welcome to stop into Robs Rock Shop to see the many pieces of stone I have worked and have on display.

Fifty foot tides and 12 knot currents, pound materials around, leaving the outer surface rough and well chipped. Although an experienced eye can tell when the material is good to work with, you never know exactly what pattern/colors will emerge as you work with the materials to reveal the individual, complex inner beauty of each sample.

No two pieces are exactly alike. Even after collecting and working seriously with samples, for over 15 years, I am still finding new colors and different or rare combinations. This amazing part of the world has many quartz varieties, zeolites, agates, jaspers, amethyst, and opalescent formations yet to be discovered.
 

More about Nova Scotia

The Bay of Fundy from Cape Split to Brier Island along the south Fundy shore is prolific in Zeolite minerals, fossils, Jasper, Agate.,One of the Zeolite minerals, Mordenite,  is named after the town of Morden Nova Scotia.

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Nova Scotia is located in Canada, on the upper east coast of North America, lying between the provinces of New Brunswick (in the west) and Newfoundland (in the northeast).  [View Nova Scotia Locator Map]

How do I get there ?

Via Air
Nova Scotia is easily accessable by Air, Sea or Land. Check out all our airline options by clicking here

An international airport is located just outside the capital city of Halifax. 

Ferry
Several ferry services operate in Nova Scotia, offering connection to the United States eastern seaboard (Bar Harbour and Portland, Maine), and New Brunswick (Saint John), Prince Edward Island (Wood Islands) and Newfoundland (Port Aux Basques and Argentia).
 

• Yarmouth is the terminal for the high speed ferry The Cat, operating from Bar Harbor, Maine to Yarmouth (4 days a week early and late season, 3 days a week mid-summer) and from Portland, Maine to Yarmouth (3 days a week early and late season, 4 days a week mid-summer). Regular bus service links Yarmouth to Halifax.

• Digby is the terminal for the car ferry from Saint John, New Brunswick. Buses depart daily to Halifax.Caribou/Pictou is the terminal for ferries which arrive daily from Wood Islands, Prince Edward Island, between May 1 and mid-December. Highway 106 leads from the ferry terminal to the Pictou Rotary and the Northumberland Shore.

• North Sydney is the terminal of the ferry service from Port-aux-Basques and Argentia, Newfoundland. North Sydney is at the eastern end of Trans Canada Highway 105.

Highway
Nova Scotia is connected to mainland Canada at the New Brunswick border.  Travelling the Trans Canada Highway east from New Brunswick will enter Nova Scotia in the Amherst area... from here it is roughly a 2.5 - 3 hour drive to the capital city of Halifax.

Train
Passenger rail service is provided by VIA Rail, with stations in Truro and Halifax.
 

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