St. John and the Bay of Fundy

Two story Bandstand in King's Square

We arrived in St. John yesterday afternoon and headed into town to see the City Market and buy some food for dinner.  We decided that we had had a lot of sea food, so bought a nice steak for the Barby!  St. John is Canada's first city.  It had 14000 Loyalists arrive here in 1783, so it grew up fast.  We didn't have time to tour the city that day, so headed back to the campsite.  We are camped in a park that is part of the city, Rockwood Park.  We are near a lovely lake, but the campsite itself is a little barren, gravel and not many trees but good services.  It is nice and close to everything.  We have very slow internet though, so I hope this comes through alright.

Flowerpot Rock on Fundy Trail Parkway, close to high tide

Same spot, Six hours later

We drove the coast on the Fundy Trail Parkway today.  We got to the Parkway around Noon, which was 1 hour before high tide, then went looking for covered bridges etc. and went back to the same places to see the difference.  It was quite remarkable.  We were not exactly at high and low tide, but you get the idea.  Highest tides in the world in the Bay of Fundy - up to 50 feet.  Chris had an interesting statistic:   in a 12 hour period, 115 billion tons of water flow in and out of the Bay of Fundy.  Equal to all the water flowing out of all the rivers in the world in a 24 hour period. 

Fishing boats at Noon

Same boats on dry land at 6 pm

The fog rolls in and out - nice beach down there.

We found 4 covered bridges, this is our favorite.


So, another lovely day here.  It was around 25 degrees and mostly sunny, with a little fog here and there on the coast.  Kind of added a bit of mystery to the area.  Catch you next time.