Bay of Fundy Blog

The Bay of Fundy rhubarb harvest is bounteous again this year - seems we've always got the right conditions for these stalks to 'go...

Here's a great tasting fiddlehead recipe I came across recently on a fun website: fiddleheads.ca. These folks (located on the west coas...

Well, so much for winter! The last couple weeks of warm winds and melting snow have heralded the arrival of "Sugar Season" on the ...

It's a matter of some debate as to whether Fundyites are more or less inclined to be cautious around our tidal coasts than visitors. Rea...

Time to dig out my kilted skirt and haggis recipe in preparation for one of the many Burn's night celebrations around the Bay of Fundy. ...

Ice cakes in the harbour make me think of oat cakes in the cupboard, so I thought this was the perfect time to share my grandmother's se...

If you're a weather watcher you'd probably get a kick out of living on the Bay of Fundy. If you're not a weather watcher, you...

A quick trip into Bay of Fundy's architecture archives reveals an interesting fact: many of our heritage churches were designed and buil...

If you happen to have 40 or 50 spare lobster traps kicking around this season why not construct one of these charming Christmas trees...guar...

Since mentioning our lobster -eating Christmas tradition in my last post, I feel compelled to reveal another Bay of Fundy food tradition oft...

It's not unusual for Bay of Fundy folk to celebrate family occasions with a lobster boil. Here in upper Fundy the lobster season comes t...

Yes, this tale is for real...there is a small company of cobblers in the village of Granville Ferry, near Annapolis Royal, on the Nova Scoti...

Although there are many enticing job prospects for those of us who live around the Bay of Fundy, such as dulse picker , flounder boat T-shir...

Folks around the Bay of Fundy still use both molasses and ginger in ginger cakes, molasses cookies and ginger snaps. Ginger arrived here dur...

Just starting to dig out Christmas cookie recipes and thought I'd share this one for cranberry-orange biscotti. Certainly cranberries ar...

Even my generation of Fundy folk are well aware that, historically, travel in our region was more likely to occur via waterway than land. ...

Late autumn winds may have sent our bright fall leaves aloft then crunching underfoot but there are still two lingering blasts of colour to...

Even if you're not inclined to eat some of the weird culinary offerings from our bay, you've got to admit, if you're a caviar...

Special message for Bay of Fundy fans: Four years ago, we began a exciting journey together – a campaign to make the Bay of...

A few photos from our wild voting spree in Saint John on the final day of the campaign. Go Fundy!

We're making an exciting dash to the finish line in the global New7Wonders of Nature campaign that concludes this Friday. Folks in t...

Speaking of 7s...as we lead into the final 7 days of the New7Wonders campaign, seven years ago the federal government made a commitment to...

Thanks to a few more Canadian celebs we've been making a bit of a wave across Canada in these last couple weeks of the campaign. Alt...

And, Rick Mercer also went whale watching off the coast of St Andrews with Canadian opera singer, Measha Brueggergosman. It was a specta...

When Canadian celebrity Rick Mercer tells you to do something you really should...like Vote for the Bay of Fundy in the New7Wonders of N...

Humphrey the Fundy whale car and I made a big splash along with our tourism colleagues from New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, as well as our ...

Humphrey the Fundy whale car  and I are on a very special mission this weekend:  to boldly go where no whale car has gon...

Not only are our TIDES huge here in Bay of Fundy but so are our PUMPKINS. Pumpkins in Hants County, Nova Scotia, are so big that people ...

The Bay of Fundy's intense tides continuously carve its coast creating intriguing rock formations such as this one off Five Islands Pr...

It's great to see a previously unsung Bay of Fundy food product finally getting it's due: sardines! Now that Omega-3s and foods with...

There is probably a scientific reason why our Bay of Fundy fall sunsets are so spectacular. Whatever the reason, the hurricane season bree...

What an exciting day here on the Bay of Fundy! CTV Canada AM's Jeff Hutcheson was here at Hopewell Rocks in New Brunswick and then in ...

Thursday, September 15, is a BIG day here on the Bay of Fundy. CTV's Canada AM is coming to film its fun weather guy, Jeff Hutcheson, ...

Believe it or not, the job of promoting Canada's wonderful Bay of Fundy can be a challenging one. Although the planning, publicity and...

It's true: most teens living on the Bay of Fundy are located in small towns and rural areas. But just because they're not near mal...

Hey! Did you know it's Great White Shark Appreciation Day in the Bay of Fundy today? Further to my last post, I've decid...

There've been a few sightings of great white sharks in our bay in the past few weeks (yes, they are the JAWS movie sharks). These sigh...

Take two (or more) starfish washed up on a Bay of Fundy beach after a wild & windy tide. Lay out starfish "sunny side up" on...

If you're lucky on a Bay of Fundy beach after a particularly turbulant tide you can catch a rare deposit of starfish high & dry. S...