My final glorious day in Nova Scotia, exploring a bit of the Minas Basin of the Bay of Fundy – with one of the highest tidal differentials in the world. I spent this day driving from Chéverie to Truro and back, enjoying the quiet autumn Sunday in farmland and tiny towns, the Bay framing it. Burntcoat Head Park is the most dramatic tidal change spot. I went by in the morning at high tide and again in late afternoon at low tide. How gloriously surreal to walk on the floor of the ocean! It was thrilling!!
From Wikipedia:
During the 12.4-hour tidal period, 115 billion tons of water flow in and out of the Bay of Fundy. According to the Canadian Hydrographic Service there is a 17 meter (56 feet) tidal range at Burntcoat Head. The Bay of Fundy has approximately six hours and thirteen minutes between each high and low tide.
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- Minas Basin is the right fork, in green and brown, with Truro at the tip.
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- From Chéverie, 9:35am
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- From Chéverie, 5:02pm
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- From Burntcoat Head Park, looking to the left, 10:38am
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- From Burncoat Head Park, looking to the left, 3:34pm
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- From Burntcoat Head Park, looking to the right, 10:38am
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- From Burntcoat Head Park, looking to the right, 10:41am
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- From Burncoat Head Park, looking to the right 3:40pm
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- Burntcoat – Out on the sand at low tide
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- It felt like I was walking on the surface of Mars
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- Out on the sand, looking back at Burntcoat Head Park, the vantage point for the earlier photos
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- From Cobequid Trail, Old Barns, 2:07pm
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- From Anthony Provincial Park 3:08pm
