Nova Scotia’s ‘The Eye’ in Long Island destroyed by Mother Nature

A Nova Scotia landmark changed dramatically overnight Monday as the power of Mother Nature collapsed the sea arch on Long Island in the Minas Basin.

“I just looked out this morning and it’s collapsed,” said Harold Nesbitt, a local resident whose home looks out over the basin and Long Island.

Nesbitt said he loved to look out over the awesome beauty of the Bay of Fundy, but his eye was always drawn to “The Eye.”

Looking at the natural archway became part of his day.

“I looked at it yesterday and it was there, today, it’s not,” he said from his home in Five Islands.

“The Eye” was visited by hikers brave enough to venture across the mud flats at low tide.

Kayakers visited it at high tide to paddled under it’s stony archway.

Images of “The Eye” are featured prominently in online travel and adventure blogs.

Nesbitt said while the collapse is going to change the landscape, “it is still an amazingly beautiful area.”

Agencies/Canadajournal