Fundy Bay

after leaving Kejimkujik we started around the Bay of Fundy, a circuit we won't finish until we leave Acadia National Park next week. The Bay of Fundy has the highest tides in the world. This is a result of its shape and position. Our first point of interest was a place called FORCE. It is a cooperative effort between the government, numerous universities and industry to try to utilize the force of the tides coming through a slightly narrower spot in the bay to power all of Nova Scotia. As well as trying to engineer the power generation, they are studying fish, marine mammals, birds, sediment suspension and anything else that this project might disrupt in a very delicate ecosystem. If anyone wants to learn more there website is fundyforce.ca.

Next we stopped at the Joggins fossil center. This site has fossils from the "coal age". It was a site that was instrumental in Charles Darwin's thinking.

The most amazing thing for a "just tourist" was these trees that would be sticking out of the cliffs in their upright position.

Out next stop was the Hopewell rocks. These cliffs are eroded by the twice daily tides in such a way that the remains look something like flower pots. We arrived about an hour after low tide and started with a walk on the beach.

These are some pictures to show the progression of the tides through the next 4 hours. 

As you can probably tell our weather is deteriorating again so we didn't get to do much outdoors for a couple of days. These are some pictures of the Fundy coast from our travels.