This is it.
The place to get away from it all and experience life in a quaint fishing village. Harbour Retreat is an ideal destination for travellers looking to get off the beaten track.
Accommodations include Tackle Box Cottage, a snuggly well appointed tiny house perfect for one or two people.
Harbour Retreat is perfectly situated between 3 gorgeous beaches, several hiking/biking trails, all amenities including: groceries, restaurants, artisan shops, markets, liquor store, gas, bank, pharmacy, laundromat.
Signature Experiences
Turn ocean waste into functional art!
Visitors to Harbour Retreat have the opportunity to sign up for unique, hyper-local workshops to create beautiful coastal home decore. All workshops utilize reclaimed lobster rope, a marine-grade polypropylene used to tether buoys to lobster traps in the sea. Weaving with this rope is meditative, fun and inspirational!
Musquodoboit Harbour
Stay a little longer…
Tackle Box Cottage is a fully equipped tiny house in the beautiful coastal village of Musquodoboit Harbour. The cottage is available year-round for longer stays.
Best suited for individuals: solo traveller, remote worker, someone in transition.
Arriving in your own vehicle is recommended. A car is required for getting around town and doing daytrips around the province.
Longer stays in beautiful Musquodoboit Harbour offers many benefits
- all amenities within a 10-15 min drive
- job opportunities
- volunteering opportunities
- onsite workshops
- wellness services (massage, aesthetics, reflexology, yoga)
- fitness centre and library
- restaurants and cafes
- year-round famers market
- 50+ kilometres of hiking and biking trails
- Martinique Beach 5 mins away
- Clam Harbour Beach & Lawrencetown Beach within a 30 min drive
- 50 mins from Halifax bridges
Surf ‘n Turf Adventure
Breathtaking outdoor adventures are easily accessible from Harbour Retreat. Martinique Beach, only minutes away, Clam Harbour Beach, Lawrencetown Beach are world-renown for surfing, sea kayaking and paddle boarding. Enjoy beautiful white sand beaches – the perfect place to thrown down a beach blanket and relax.
You can also bike, hike and rock climb the scenic Musquodoboit Trailways. Also close is the Gaetz Brook Greenway – both trailsways are part of the old rail bed that ran through Nova Scotia. Amazing history, views and nature await!
Reviews
Workshops
Wendy is so personable and well-spoken that at the end it felt like we had made a new friend and left with a lovely piece of craftwork that was created to make the experience even more memorable! Beautiful location overlooking the ocean, and it’s a great feeling to know that the materials used were collected from the ocean which reduces ocean waste but is also reused to create art! The process is fun, not stressful, and at the end you feel pretty proud with what you’ve built! Thank you so much, Wendy! You are wonderful!
– Recent Weave A Lobster Rope Mat Participant
Tackle Box Cottage
Wendy is a fantastic host and Harbour Retreat is perfectly located to enjoy the beautiful beaches of Nova Scotia’s Eastern Shore. Nestled between Lawrence Town and Clam Harbour beaches, with Martinique Beach less than 5 km down the road….perfect. But you don’t have to leave the Harbour Retreat property to relax and enjoy beautiful scenery! This is our second year there and we can’t wait for our third!
– Recent Tackle Box Cottage Guest