When we get to the end of our trips, our only thought is to get home as fast as we can. So, this time, instead of retracing our steps back though Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, we decided to take a ferry from western Nova Scotia to Maine.
We had a Long-eared Owl sitting on one of the balconies of our building a few days ago.
We’ve been having very wintry weather lately – lots of snow and cold temperatures. I didn’t walk much for a few weeks because of the deer hunters, but now they’re gone and I can walk wherever I like.
This is the second part of the story of the tides around the Bay of Fundy. But this is specifically about tidal bores - an unusual tidal phenomenon that only occurs in a few places in the world.
The south shore of Nova Scotia is along the Atlantic Ocean and it’s quite different from the Bay of Fundy.
The Bay of Fundy is between New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, and is known for its unusually high tides. Tides in the Atlantic Ocean are only 3 or 4 feet high. But the Bay of Fundy is a long narrow bay, so the water sloshes back and forth – like the water in a bath tub – and the tides there are much higher – between 40 and 50 vertical feet.
We spent a few days in northern New Brunswick, waiting for Hurricane Kyle to move through. Kyle was heading up the Atlantic coast toward Nova Scotia and we didn't think our camper could survive the high winds of a hurricane.