The Bay of Fundy

Trip Start Jun 19, 2006
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Trip End Aug 07, 2006


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Thursday, July 13, 2006

Hello All,

Yesterday was a day of travel. we arrived in Hopewell yesterday afternoon. On the way we stopped in the little sea side town of Alma on the Bay of Fundy. We visited a lobster distribution business. It was quite facinating. They had a dozen tanks of live lobsters in various rediness for sale. They also had cooked lobsters ready to eat. We saved ourselves for today as we had a hamburger feed provided by Adventure Caravans last evening. We also learned that a lobster only gains one pound for each year of life. So you are eating a 7 year old if you buy a 1 lb lobster. Today we went to the "Flower Pot" rocks. The rocks spires have been formed over millions of years of wind and tidal activity. Now tidal activity in this part of the world is 39 to 42 feet. The average tides for the rest of the world are 3-4 feet. The beach close to land is gravel and rock bed 5.9 Lobsters awaiting their fate
5.9 Lobsters awaiting their fate
 . The tidal flats out farther are near to quick sand and have trapped unsuspecting or unwise tourists. When the tide changes you DO NOT WANT TO OUT THERE.

Linda and Joe have provided our transportation to the side trip. They are neat people and have traveled on other caravans with Carolyn and Shirley. We broke off from the group and went to the Cape Enrage lighthouse. We could see Newfoundland across the Bay of Fundy. A group of college students have taken over this site and have done some wonderful reconstruction of the lighthouse and the keepers home.

Hope the pictures show the magnificence of what we saw.

SCS
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