Bay of Fundy; anybody been there?

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I will be visiting the "Bay of Fundy" in August. It will be a family trip (14 days) driving from San Antonio, Texas up to the bay; my wife, my two teenage daughters and I...(I know, I must be nuts). The main reason is that my youngest daughter wants to see the tide when it's high and when it's low. Of course, we will stop to see everything in between...So, is anybody familiar with the area and can anybody fill me in with details?

Thanks, Eugene
 
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Highest tides in the world! Supposed to be pretty cool. My parents were just there, and they recommend Digby, for their world famous sea scallops, so that's worth a stop if you're in the area...

Are you driving through Canada (Montreal etc?) or the States? You're in Minnesota, aren't you? There's some GREAT fishing just north of you if you're planning on coming this way....

If you're a history buff, Port Royal is considered to be one of the earliest settlements in North America...

It's a bit out of your way, but Lanse-aux-meadows on the island of Newfoundland is the first European settlement in North American (Leif the Lucky)

St. John NB has the famous reversing falls, in which the water flows downhill, then uphill, based on the tidal flow...

There's plenty of opportunity to whale watch, and the grand banks are full of fish (or used to be, before the fishing trollers of Japan sucked up most of the commercial fish)

There's a big botanical garden at Annapolis, NS

Probably a thousand other things too, but this is what leaps to mind...
 
We are planning on Nova Scotia trip. My wife and kids are leaving on next week and driving. Along the way they are visiting some colleges that my son is interested in attending. I'm flying to meet them in Manchester, NH a week later. From there we are planning to drive to Bar Harbor and take the Cat to NS.

The tides are a big part of the reason for the trip for us. Also we take our rockhounding pretty seriously and there are some collecting sites at Cobequid Bay at the eastern end of Fundy that are only accessible at low tide.
 
I know the New Brunswick side of the bay very well. I attended the University of NB and was in their geology program in the mid-late 70's). We often took field trips from Fredericton down to the bay and we studied a lot of the coastal stratigraphy, sedimentary structures etc in the area.

I think the most famous place to vist the bay is at Hopewell Rock near Moncton. From there you can walk amoungst the famous Flower Pot Islands at low tide. There are many many vista's along the Fundy coastline but none more impressive than those near the head of the bay.

August is also whale watching season on the bay, a ferry trip over to Grand Manan Island from Blacks Harbour NB is a Must!

PM if you have any other thoughts or questions,
 
I worked at a nuclear plant there. On the way to work, we'd pass a muddy creek. On the way home, it would be a full lake. Obviously, it was connected to the ocean. There's a place in town where the river changes direction, and you can watch the wave as it comes in and overtakes the river current.
 
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I worked at a nuclear plant there. On the way to work, we'd pass a muddy creek. On the way home, it would be a full lake. Obviously, it was connected to the ocean. There's a place in town where the river changes direction, and you can watch the wave as it comes in and overtakes the river current.
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Bruce, were you at Pt LePreau??

http://www.candu.org/nbpower.html

The father of a friend of mine was the Civil eng who designed the concrete for the whole project. We got a walk though of the project in 78 before they fired it up.

My same friend now works there as A Sr Engineer.
 
That's the place. We got there in the middle of the night and the gate was wide open and we had to honk to wake the guard! :) The plant uses low enriched fuel and heavy water, so I guess they weren't to worried about terrorists. Heavy water costs hundreds of dollars per liter, so there were no leaks to be found. All of the motor operated valves we were testing were triple the size they needed to be and the place was spotless. That was probably the cleanest nuclear plant I've ever been to. They have the reactor set up sideways, where a log of new fuel is put in one side, and a log of the old fuel pops out the other. It looked like a great setup. I saw the old fuel glowing in the spent fuel pool. Cool stuff.
 
Small world Bruce..:D

That design is called a CANDU, a Canadian design, it's been sold across Canada and around the world.

Terrorists? This is Canada, we have hockey players, but no terrorists!![:0];)

The intake/outtake channels for the Lepreau site were formed by a contious concrete cast pour with the forms tunnelled out into the Bay of Fundy.. when the pour was complete the forms were floated to surface out in the bay, a really really cool process!
 
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