Today I'm writing about Sable Island National Park Reserve - a very unique National Park Reserve in Canada which you have to have advance permission from Parks Canada to be able to visit - and can only reach it by plane or boat . . .
- Sable Island National Park Reserve is famous for its hundreds of wild horses The island hosts between 150 and 500 wild horses. They have thick, woolly, shaggy coats, often brown, and stocky bodies. Today’s population descended from horses introduced to the island in the 1700s.
- It has the world's largest grey seal colony, tens of thousands of grey seals (the world's largest breeding colony).
- Sable Island National Park Reserve is the only nesting ground for the rare Ipswich Sparrow.
- Due to its isolated position, unpredictable currents, and the way the sandbar blends with the ocean, the area is historically known as the "Graveyard of the Atlantic". Over 350 shipwrecks have been recorded off its shores since the 1800s.
- It is a 42-kilometer-long strip of shifting sand located on the edge of the Continental Shelf in the Atlantic Ocean with no native trees, but is covered in marram grass, heath-type vegetation, delicate orchids, and freshwater wetland patches.
You will find my full post about Sable Island National Park Reserve at this link.
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