PEI Trip Day 6
A very long day on Tuesday. We started out with an early breakfast and then headed to the other end of the island to catch the ferry to Nova Scotia.
We leave PEI behind on the car ferry to Nova Scotia. It took only 75 minutes to cross over.
Three hours later we arrived a Joggins, Nova Scotia on the Bay of Fundy. In parts of this bay are the largest tides in the world. Tides are regularly 75 feet. We arrived just 10 minutes after low tide. Even where I was standing to take the above picture will be at least 20 feet under water at high tide. The black line is a coal seam that is showing. The cliffs of Joggins are famous for their plant fossils. Fossil trees are found and lots of different extinct fern trees and lycophytes are found there.
Here we are at Joggins again on a hard band of sandstone that sticks out into the bay. This will also be under water at high tide. While we were there the tide came in at least 200 feet as the kids played at the edge. Dawn started at a rock far away from the kids and by the time we moved from there an hour later the water was coming up around her rock. Every little wave came up higher than the one before. It was a very vivid example of rising tide that the kids will never forget.
After Joggins we made are way back to New Bruswick and then down the Bay of Fundy to the Maine border. We only could find two of the kids birth certificates before we left so I wasn't sure what would happen but was planning on being grilled an having to spend some time at the border. But, he just looked at my passport and Dawn's drivers license and wished us well.
We drove into the sunset and finally came to Bar Harbor. We searched for 1 1/2 hours for a hotel with a room. we finally found a place with no internet or any frills at all but at least we could finally lie down at 11pm.
We leave PEI behind on the car ferry to Nova Scotia. It took only 75 minutes to cross over.
Three hours later we arrived a Joggins, Nova Scotia on the Bay of Fundy. In parts of this bay are the largest tides in the world. Tides are regularly 75 feet. We arrived just 10 minutes after low tide. Even where I was standing to take the above picture will be at least 20 feet under water at high tide. The black line is a coal seam that is showing. The cliffs of Joggins are famous for their plant fossils. Fossil trees are found and lots of different extinct fern trees and lycophytes are found there.
Here we are at Joggins again on a hard band of sandstone that sticks out into the bay. This will also be under water at high tide. While we were there the tide came in at least 200 feet as the kids played at the edge. Dawn started at a rock far away from the kids and by the time we moved from there an hour later the water was coming up around her rock. Every little wave came up higher than the one before. It was a very vivid example of rising tide that the kids will never forget.
After Joggins we made are way back to New Bruswick and then down the Bay of Fundy to the Maine border. We only could find two of the kids birth certificates before we left so I wasn't sure what would happen but was planning on being grilled an having to spend some time at the border. But, he just looked at my passport and Dawn's drivers license and wished us well. We drove into the sunset and finally came to Bar Harbor. We searched for 1 1/2 hours for a hotel with a room. we finally found a place with no internet or any frills at all but at least we could finally lie down at 11pm.
posted by Joel Duff | 8/22/2007 08:21:00 PM
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