Shediac, NB

We've traveled from Vance's farm in Norton, MA, through New Brunswick and are now camped just below Prince Edward Island in Shediac to reconoiter and decide where to go next. After Boston, we made our way, via Bangor, to the Canadian border at Calais, ME/St Stephen, NB,CN. It took us over an hour of waiting in line to cross the border & we were highly insulted that the border guards were totally uninterested in us as suspicious characters, practically shooing us through the crossing so they could check out someone else. I guess our 'Thelma & Louise' persona hadn't yet reached them.

The city of St John, NB, is the first location we visited to have a noticeable effect from the high tidal flows of the Bay of Fundy & it's called Reversing Falls. There is a small fall at the mouth of the St John River which actually reverses in flow during the tidal changes. Normally the St John flows into the Atlantic, but when the tide is coming in, the water pushes into the river instead.




Further on, the Fundy Provencial Park and Hopewell Cape, give perfect views of the Bay, as it rises & falls every 12 hours. These pictures of low and high tide are pretty descriptive. However, the high tide was just a small one today (32 feet). Another noteworthy; there are 125 steps in one set of stairs we took at the park, and 99 steps in the set at Hopewell Cape where the 'flower pots' were photographed. And we climbed every last one of them!!