Wandering Retirees

Happy Tuesday! It’s nearly a crime, but we’re beginning to hurry across Nova Scotia on our way home. Our ride covered 275 miles along the Trans Canada Highway and secondary roads, like Provincial Rt 236. It’s fun on the back roads though you have to pay attention to rapidly changing speed limits posted on Kilometers. A limit of 60 kph is about 37mph, a big enough difference. After two weeks you’d think it would be natural by now, but …. No tickets, thankfully. Yet.

Our destination is a cute little motel we stayed at in 2013 called The Breeze. It has all of 10 rooms and is right at the shoreline. It is not fancy at all, but is plenty comfortable and offers a ringside seat for the antics of the Bay.

The Bay of Fundy has the largest tides anywhere in the world. Where most tidal changes elsewhere average about 3-5 feet, this funnel shaped bay between the provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia has a range of about 50 feet. Where we are at Grand Pre, low tide finds the waterline nearly 1/2 mile off shore. Six hours later, water surges in to cover everything to the breakwater. It comes so fast that rivers flowing into the bay become tidal bores where surges of white water flow upstream. There are businesses that cater to upstream white water rafting, kayaking, even surfing. It’s nuts! It’s also spectacular.

Tomorrow it’s on to Yarmouth and then our ferry back to Bar Harbor the next day.

At the moment everything is quiet and beautiful. We’re so glad we came here again.