.

From "The first year of retirement"

.

FUNDY SUMMER I

Starting a trip around the Bay of Fundy: Blomidon

Walter Aue and Helga Kraus, July 2001


The Bay of Fundy lies between Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, still sort of "around here". If you visit, watch out for the tides. They can reach 15 meter (50 feet), and they rush in awfully fast over those long red mud flats. We'll watch them, and we'll start our trip at a place already visited: The cliffs of Blomidon. It's where Glooscap and Beaver created the tides and the islands of the Bay of Fundy.
.
.
. Above the cliffs in Blomidon Provincial Park

Fences, fences everywhere...

. The mudflats of Blomidon Beach at low tide

Left stranded

. Fishing boats near Blomidon at low tide. Wait six hours and see the fishermen step into their boats right off the wharf. The old title? Couldn't think of a new one. I was left stranded. Sorry about that...

Left stranded

.

.
.
. The Minas Basin from Blomidon Provincial Park

Glooscap watching

. Near Blomidon on the Minas Basin

Making hay

.

.
.
. I don't know what grows here. All kinds of vegetables, I suppose. But, in case you didn't know: I hate vegetables!

Tractor trails

. This one I know. Hot smoked pork on rye, with pickles right out of the brine. And later: whipping cream for the coffee!

Time for a Picnic

. There's lots of delicious clams under that clammy mud!

Sticky and smelly

.

.
.
. Cliffs at Blomidon Beach

Memories of Glooscap

. View from the cliffs

Cloud shadow

.

.
.
. As low as the tide goes - but only the tide will make it back to shore.

How low can we go?

. Sure you are right: It's the same old mudflats again.

Brilliant and productive

. The mudflats are reborn with each tide. Tides that came long before we did - and that will keep coming long after we are gone.

Long after we are gone...

.

.
.
. Even Glooscap is being worne down...

...from towering rock...

. ...by the time and the wind and the tides

...to floating sand

.


« «   Home Page
Map
Want to venture on?
» »