The Bay of Funday

After leaving P.E.I we headed back through New Brunswick to Nova Scotia and the Bay of Funday. We stayed overnight in Truro at a B&B with a lady that could talk the ear off an elephant and her husband who was a ex Naval Deep Sea Diver, now stained glass enthusiast. Both salt of the earth and we had a really pleasant night although the conversation was very one sided, the husband got in less than us - I'm surprised he knows how to speak with as little practice as he gets. The next morning we woke to see the World Famous Truro Tidal Bore. Which is where the tide meets the outrunning river to form a wave sometimes metres in size which you could surf up! We saw what looked like centimetres (bit boring - excuse the pun) but once the bore came in, the bay we were watching went from low tide to high tide in about an hour so was rather spectacular to view.

We then drove to Burncoat Head which is the site of the largest recorded tide at 16 metres! Yes the size of a 5 story building. Anyone from the 6th floor Credit Suisse group just look out of the window and imagine the depth of low tide to high tide. The photo shows Craig just after high tide so about mid tide really.