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.
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.
We stayed for a few days at a wonderful park on the Gaspe Peninsula – the long peninsula that sticks out into the ocean along the south side of the St. Lawrence River in Quebec.
We started our trip with a visit to Richard in Ashland, Wisconsin.
Our friend Martha was a geology major in college, and she loves rocks. So this post is for her – all sorts of cool rocks from Michigan to Nova Scotia.