Kev n Jens Adventures: Bay of Fundy National Park

Aug 18-20, 2024 - We left Sullivan late Sunday morning, drove 9 hours and stayed in Mansfield, OH in a Cracker Barrel parking lot. Monday morning we got up early and drove for 14 hours! We made it all the way to Augusta Maine where we stayed at a Walmart. Tuesday morning we only had a 4.5 hour drive to the Bay of Fundy National Park where we caught up with Aunt Gerry and Uncle Gene who had started the trip a week and half ago.

On the road again

Still thinking of Bob. This trip will be a mix of both happy and sad.

Route 90 was closed outside of Boston due to an accident and we took a detour through Belchertown. Not sure I'd want to live there.

We drove through a cloud in Maine

Our Canada crossing was uneventful. We were the only ones in line and there weren't any questions about chicken (wish I would have brought some, because now we have to find a grocery store).

Yay! We found the Diullos!

The town of Alma is a 1 mile walk from the campground. This is the view of the harbor from the campground

Holy Whale Brewery (an old church), drinking some Rhonda Reds

Mirabelle didn't know what to think of this moose

The Alma harbor is in the Bay of Fundy so it gets huge swings in the tides. They put the boats on metal lifts to keep them from tipping over when the tide is low and there isn't any water. This was mid tide and you can see the metal lifts under the red boat and the one next to it.

The Alma Beach is big when it's low tide

You can see the tide is even lower now, after we walked up the hill to the campground

Lep and Tiny back together. Site 107 & 108

Aug 21, 2024 - Today we're headed to Hopewell Rocks Provincial Park. It's 30 minutes from our campground. Low tide is at 8:08 AM and 3 hours on each side of low tide you can walk on the ocean floor, with high tide 6+ hours later. The Bay of Fundy has a tidal range of 52 feet, which is the highest in the world. The average tidal range worldwide is 3.3 ft. This large tidal range occurs because of tidal resonance in the funnel shaped bay.

driving through Alma we can see the boats at low tide, with no water under them at all

The view of Hopewell Rocks before walking down the stairs.

These formations are called sea stacks or flower pots

There were 120 stairs to get to the bottom

Lots of seaweed growing on the rocks and it was quite muddy in places

Mirabelle stayed clean

but not everyone did

selfie time

Gerry and I walked out to this viewpoint of Big Cove on our walk back to the visitors' center

And then we came back after we ate our picnic lunch an hour and a half later, and it was quite different

On the drive back to our campground I saw Anderson Hollow Lighthouse, was a short detour (OK we had to drive a 2.5 mile gravel road, that Kev wasn't thrilled about).

But it was a pretty spot

The lighthouse was in disrepair but it was a nice little side trip

View of the Alma harbor on our evening walk...low tide again

bench with a view of Alma

Aug 22, 2024 - Today we're headed to Prince Edward Island. It's a 3.5 hour drive and we need to stop at Walmart to grab some groceries. We'll be staying at a Stanhope campground in PEI National Park.