We definitely had fun in Fundy today! This place has always been on my bucket list, and it was totally cool. Much muddier than I expected though.
We drove out to the Fundy Tidal Interpretive Centre, which was weird and not as interesting as we’d hoped. It’s located on the Shubenacadie River, which is the longest river in Nova Scotia.
On our drive there, we’re on this totally podunk country road, and we ran into this sign:
Well alrighty then.
A couple of minutes later we ran into a hay bale on wheels:
Told you it was a podunk road.
At the Interpretive Centre, there’s an old railroad bed with part of the bridge still there that you can walk on, which was kind of cool:
This was an hour or so before low tide. Then we drove out to Burntcoat Head Park (at just low tide), which is the site of the highest recorded tide on the planet. It was so cool!!!! We walked on the ocean floor. The rock formations were outstandingly beautiful.
There were billions of snails, and rocks, and little shrimps in the tide pools. The area is so much bigger than you can tell in the pictures, and the cliffs so much higher. That island with the trees on top is called a flowerpot island, because at high tide only the green part sticks out.
We originally planned to drive back out to the same park at high tide, but we decided it was too far to drive, so we went to Blomidon Park instead. It’s up on 600 foot high cliffs, and the views were amazing across the Minas Basin and the valley:
On the way back we were driving through the most picture perfect farms. But I do have a question – we kept passing signs that read ‘Farm Vehicles Turning Left’. But there were farms on both sides of the road, don’t the tractors have to go right too? It’s very confusing.
We really had a great day today. Tomorrow we start heading home and back to real life, but hopefully we’ll have a few more adventures on the way.