Thursday, October 1, 2009
Chignecto Bay in the Bay of Fundy
We started down the Nova Scotia coast closest to New Brunswich. It was cloudy early but not raining. We drove to Joggins. This coast is known for finding fossiles of 300,000 yrs. ago. We wanted to walk on the floor of the bay and look for some but it was high tide and all water. We drove down a smaller road heading for Cape Chignecto/Advocate Hbr. The drive was full of colorful trees, overcast, but we hoped we still got some great pictures. Wen we got to the park, it looked like rain so we didn't want to pay to walk the other trails so we opted to walk the beach. This beach was so heavily laden with rocks and was very hard to walk on. These rocks were various colors and sizes. The high cliffs were also. As we began walking back to the park it started to sprinkle. Before we got back to the car it was pouring!!! We both got soaked. We had just washed our clothes last night and now everything was wet again. It was raining too hard to see the road so we had to just sit in the car. When we finally got started on our way, we had to stop again because Nancy couldn't see the road. We missed going to Cape 'Or, a peninsular out in the bay that had a lighthouse. Bay of Fundy rises and falls twice a day. From low tide to high tide can be up to 58 feet. When it's low tide you can walk on the floor of the bay out for a long way. We drove in the rain to Parrsboro, another seaside village. We couldn't see anything so we decided to stop for the night in the town's only motel, Sunshine Inn. Hopefully tomorrow will be sunny.
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