Our first destination after leaving the states was the Bay of Fundy National Park in New Brunswick. Phase two kicked off the camping part of our trip. Overall, camping was fine. We stayed (relatively) dry and didn't get eaten by any of the numerous bears in the area in any case.
The Bay of Fundy is an interesting place. Due to it's funnel shape - wide and deep at the ocean end, narrow and shallow at the other - it has the highest tides in the world. In many places, low tide means boats are stranded on the muddy floor of the bay.
At Hopewell Rocks we had a nice wide trail that took us down to the bay, in an area known as Flowerpot Rocks.
This is low tide, when people are allowed to walk the floor. The tides here change at an average of 6-8 feet an hour, and can rise about 40 feet above the floor of the bay.
It was an eerie, muddy place!
LOVE the Canadian "danger" signs!
Seaweed covered the exposed rocks, and these little snails were all over the seaweed!
Snail trails!
So.much.mud.
Past the part of the beach open to visitors was this endless mud flat.
Because most sea critters can't filter out the ever-present mud, there are no crabs or fish or clams....so there are no sea birds. It's almost completely empty.
A short walk from our campsite was Point Wolfe Gorge. Although the tides here still changed drastically, it wasn't as muddy.
A view of Point Wolfe River looking out toward the bay.
We had to travel over this covered bridge to get to and out of our campground!
Our campsite...
This little rodent started off as a cute visitor. Until we realized that he had no fear of us, and he wanted a piece of our blueberry muffins. No amount of "shooing" made him leave us alone. So we did what anyone would do when packing to leave a bear-infested campground: we started tossing him marshmallows. Which he carried up into the trees and "hid" on branches, looking like Christmas decorations!
Morning fog on the Bay of Fundy
We wanted to see Hopewell Rocks at high tide, but we made it about 2-3 hours after the tide peaked, and already the water was low enough to show the floor.
We spent one full day in the Bay of Fundy area, having arrived late at night, and then packed up to do our Phase 3 travelling early in the day...
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