Fox Point Beach

Fox Point Beach is a semi-sheltered sandy cove on the St. Margaret's Bay and Hubbards shore of Nova Scotia, rated Open Water and good for training. Entry and exit are very easy: you park, put your gear on and walk straight into the water. The site faces 152 degrees SE from the beach.

The bottom starts with small pebbles and sand, then slopes very gradually. At 3 to 6 ft (about 1 to 2 m) a few larger boulders and small rocks are scattered in the sand, and from about 10 ft (3 m) the rocks appear and can be followed out to maximum depth. The sand beyond holds fine sand with a few rocks, reaching about 35 to 40 ft (10.7 to 12.9 m). A rock wall runs along the shore on the left as a breakwater, and the best diving is on the left, where most of the life is. The right side is mostly sand with little to see.

Crabs and sand dollars live on the first rocks. Sand further out can show skates, flounder and sea perch, and lobsters turn up too, with more crabs and lobster near the rocky shoreline on the left.