Bay of Fundy

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We are camping on the Bay of Fundy, which is the bay between Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.  This bay is famous because it has the world’s highest tides.  Where tides elsewhere in the world average 3 feet, they are 6 feet here and sometimes up to 40 feet.  There was a boat dock next to our campground while in we were exploring Annapolis Royal.  At high tide, the boats looked normal tied up at the dock.  At low tide, they were laying on the ground.

At high tide, the water comes up to the large boulders on the right, and the boats are floating. The posts on either side of the boats are brown where the water comes up, green is above water.  Most boats here have some kind of support on the bottom so that they don’t tip over.

Then we went to the Fundy Discovery Center to watch a tidal bore. I’ve never heard of a tidal bore until a few days ago.  In case you haven’t, I’ll try to explain it.  The tide pushes a large amount of water up this bay and because it’s shaped like a funnel, it gets pretty concentrated up at the narrower end of the bay.  At low tide, the water is flowing out from the streams and rivers into the bay.  However in high tide, there is so much water coming in so fast, it changes the direction of the water flow.  There are actually waves where the water coming up meets the water flowing out.

These were the waves created as the tide flows up this river.

Since there are only so many photos you can post of a tidal bore, I’ll pull out some weird ones, like my favorite – signs.  Here one I found at yesterday’s campground.

Pot smoking. And there’s even an ash tray tacked onto the tree for your convenience.
Now that we’re back to 4 lane highways with exits, these blue signs tell you what you can find at this exit. This is a small one – I’ve seen some with up to 12 blue signs. I’ve figured out most of these with the exception of the @ sign. The key means museum – who knows why.
And I’ll close out with a sunset over Cove Oceanfront Campground. The whole time we were there, it was foggy. This was the clearest it was the entire 3 days.

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