Are you yearning for an idyllic spot in North America to build a summer house or year-round home? Is easy airport access important to you? Do you want to be lucky enough to own a large island that has only one contiguous neighbour or a provincial park with a 3-mile-long white sand crescent beach? Then Bayers Islands might be your paradise.

Bayers Islands (a.k.a. Martinique Islands), a premium undeveloped private oceanfront archipelago, is now available for purchase. Ideally suited for development as a family or corporate retreat, eco-tourism destination or private park. It offers a secluded, yet easily reached location attached to the longest white sand beach in Nova Scotia, and adjacent to a famous bird sanctuary, just 40 minutes from bustling Halifax or the international airport (with direct commercial flights to Boston, Newark, London, Montreal, Ottawa, etc.)

This is your chance to own a private natural reserve, in an environment surrounded by a Provincial Park, a Game Sanctuary, and Nature Conservancy holdings, directly on the Atlantic Ocean, yet easily reached from the US Northeast and Mid-Atlantic in just one morning. Alternatively, Bayers Island is easily accessed simply by parking your car and walking 25 minutes down Nova Scotia's longest barefoot white sand beach. How many coastal islands can you actually walk to without even getting your feet wet?

Nova Scotia has a climate similar to Boston's, thanks to the Gulf Stream. When the Northeast is sweltering in hot humid weather during the summer months and early autumn, Nova Scotia enjoys temperatures in the 60s and 70s. What's more, Nova Scotia (being part of Canada) is stable, friendly, peaceful, and English-speaking, with an excellent infrastructure.

Try finding pristine oceanfront along any coast of the US and you'll be disappointed in selection and price. If you purchase Bayer's Islands, you'll not only be enjoying thousands of feet of ocean frontage, you'll also be the only private landowner in a complex of islands and beach so ecologically important that it's a designated RAMSAR site. Yet, Bayer's Islands are zoned for any use whatsoever - perfect for your dream house, eco-lodge, or lighthouse.

Most ocean islands are difficult and/or dangerous to access. Not Bayers Islands, a unique coastal island happily perched at the end of a sand spit. You're less than a 40 minute drive from either Halifax (the provincial capital) or the Halifax International Airport. Just 6 miles on paved road from a hospital, supermarket, lumberyard, library, and schools; just 2 miles from a golf course, yacht club, and a deliciously authentic German bakery. With the bird sanctuary in your 'backyard', the Martinique Beach Provincial Park as your 'driveway', and the open ocean everywhere else, you're arguably in the most desirable conservation-grade property currently available for private sale in North America.

What are you going to leave your children as a natural legacy? In this world of impinging sprawl and pollution, consider leaving them one of the 'last great places'. Bayers Islands is a protected ecological jewel where the ocean sounds soothe away your stress; where the Great Blue Herons soar overhead and leave your jaw agape; where pilot and Minke whales ply by peacefully, seals play in the waves; and where you have the comfort of knowing that you will never see another house (other than your own) pop up anywhere around you for perpetuity.

Bayers Islands isn't a country unto itself, but it's the next best thing.

Quick Facts:

• 1.5 miles of bold ocean, plus 1.6 miles of protected harbour frontage, with breathtaking 360 degree views. 79 acres of surveyed, untouched, unlogged, and enchanted forest.

• Situated at the end of Nova Scotia's longest white sand beach (Martinique Beach, 5 km).

• Bold ocean frontage on three points.

• Beautiful rock formations.

• Clear title.

• Easy access from Boston, New York, London, Washington, Montreal and Ottawa.

• Protected on all sides from development and no ATV use.

• Multi zoning - you can build whatever you want, yet no development is possible for miles around you for perpetuity!

• Good safe access by boat (10 minutes) or foot (25 minutes). Fantastic birding -- Bald Eagles, Great Blue Herons, Osprey, Piping Plover, Northern Harrier, Great Horned Owls, Geese and Ducks abound.

• Surprisingly nice climate, thanks to the Gulf Stream.

• Fresh water on island.

• Interesting flora - lush ground cover, berry bushes, old man's beard, moss, old growth forest.

• Clean air, clean water.

• Low annual taxes (~$1200 US).

• Ideal building locations for solar (southwest exposure) and wind power (ocean breezes).

• Good cell phone reception.

• Astounding ecological diversity and significance.

• No problem for American ownership.

• Intelligent investment opportunity.