The tides in the Bay of Fundy, the shipping canal linking the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, are the highest in the planet, with an estimated 100 billion tons of fill up rolling in and made known of the bay twice day after day. Each day 100 billion tonnes of seawater flows in and out of the Bay of Fundy during one tide cycle more than the combined flow of the world’s freshwater rivers!
One of the preeminent seats to think it over this phenomenon in proceedings is Hopewell Rocks Park. These “flowerpot” rocks are tree-topped rocks single to a degree visible by distinguished tide. Low tide reveals their delicate, sculpted bases. During low tide it is doable to in fact pace on the revealed sea floor. Equally the tide comes in, way missing on the flats factually disappear previous to people’s eyes as the fill up rises six to eight feet for every hour. Inside approximately parts of the bay the difference linking distinguished and low tide can be as much as 46 feet (14 m).
Whale enthusiasts will be grateful for the bay area pro the variety of marine mammals attracted to its krill-rich waters all through the summer months. Up to fifteen uncommon species of saw-toothed and baleen whales get on to their summer family in the waters solely outside the bay. Whale-watching tours depart day after day from June to October all time.
For a foretaste into the planetary earlier period, get on to a tumble up the bay to the Joggins Fossil Cliffs. These stonework cliffs are rich with 300 million year-old fossils of everything from invertebrates to lizards and the trees of the primal forest they lived in. The powerful tides in the Bay of Fundy are constantly eroding the cliffs, constantly instructive more fossils.
No visit to the Bay of Fundy would be complete lacking considering the Reversing Falls of St. John. The St. John River flows into the bay through a run of rapids. When the bay’s legendary distinguished tide occurs, the tide of sea fill up forces the waterway fill up back up its way, reversing the direction of the cascade.
The Bay of Fundy’s rich ecosystems, including many bogs, marshes and mudflats, support the lives of numerous plants and animals.
The New Brunswick side of the Upper Bay of Fundy is home to the Fundy Biosphere Reserve, one of 531 landscapes in 105 countries designated as UNESCO World Biosphere Reserves. These 430,000 hectares – ranging along the coastline from St. Martins to the Tantramar Marshes and inland to Moncton – are one of only 15 such ecosystems in Canada. The Biosphere emphasizes the importance of conservation and sustainability in the region, as well as its uniqueness with respect to its geological formations, terrestrial and marine ecosystems and history and culture. (The Fundy Biosphere Reserve, 2011)
The Fundy Biosphere Reserve named 50 “Amazing Places” for visitors to explore:
Big Salmon River
Black Hole
Bore Park and the Tidal Bore
Cape Enrage
Cape Maringouin
Caribou Plain
Cradle Brook
Crooked Creek Look-Off
Dickson Falls
The Forks
Dragon’s Tooth
Moosehorn
Eye of the Needle
Fossilized Sand Dunes
Fuller Falls
Goose Creek
Goose River
Hayward Pinnacle
The Hopewell Rocks
Irishtown Nature Park
Johnson’s Mills
Laverty Falls
Little Salmon River
Long Beach
Martin Head
Marven Lake
Mary’s Point
Million Dollar View
New Horton Hawk Watch Site
Pangburn and Melvin Beach and Cliffs
Peck’s Cove
Point Wolfe River Estuary
Prosser Ridge Lookout
Quaco Head
Rapidy Brook
Sackville Waterfowl Park
Sea Caves
Seely Beach
Shepody Marsh (Harvey to Riverside-Albert)
Shepody NWA / Lars Larsen Marsh
Slack’s Cove
Squaw’s Cap Look-off
Telegraph Brook Beach
Third Vault Falls
Tracey Lake
Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum Falls
Upper Salmon River Estuary
Waterside and Dennis Beaches
Wolfe River Gorge
Wolf Brook
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