Bay of Fundy Blog

Good news this week on the tidal energy front: The Nova Scotia government is investing $250,000 to research tidal power. The funds will be g...

It's easy to love the Bay of Fundy in spring, summer and fall with all the sea-sky blues & greens and cliffscape cobalts & terra...

If you confess to buying wine by the label (as I shamefully admit I do) you will also be enticed by the Grand Pre Winery 's gorgeous win...

No, I am not offering free Grand Pre Winery samples here on my blog but rather a free view of their sample Vidal Icewine label, as well as ...

Did you know that some of Canada's best ice wines come from Domaine de Grand Pre Winery here on the Bay of Fundy? Although originally i...

Whoops, how rude of me, I forgot to include a sample of Mary's fine work in that post earlier today. With permission, here is Parrsboro...

Just received this interesting note from painter, Mary Sheehan Winn , who lives in New England but has an interesting Bay of Fundy connectio...

Historic sardine vessel, the Bernadine will take on a new life this summer as floating Bay of Fundy promoter. She'll be plying the wate...

It's been awhile since I posted a favourite Bay of Fundy mussel recipe. This one is a bit unusual but excellent - if you like blue chee...

Just received these photos from one of our Bay of Fundy whale watch operators: Brier Island Whale & Seabird Cruises . There is certainly...

I just heard about a small Maine Company, Quoddy Mist Sea Salt , that is using the briny seawater that surges up the Bay of Fundy to harvest...

I've noticed that the tide is frequently used as a metaphor in literature as something unstoppable or unharnessable by humans. Consider...

Just got back from Halifax where the Bay of Fundy Tourism project that I manage won a 2nd award for its green business program! Received at ...

Great snow around the Bay of Fundy today. Had a bit of fun in my back yard sculpting this whale out of snow.

I've had several emails from Bay of Fundy folks wondering what they can do to voice their concerns about the LNG proposal. One of the be...

The colder it gets this winter around the Bay of Fundy, the more enticing a Fundy-themed spa becomes. Many accommodations around the Bay of...

I came across this typical Bay of Fundy winter sight while walking the dog this morning. Food for shore birds is scarce this time of year so...

The past few winters around the Bay of Fundy haven't been cold enough to produce ice cakes of any decent size. When I was a kid I rememb...

In my frequent travels around the Bay of Fundy over the past decade I've witnessed many photographers (professional & amateur) and ...

I've been searching everywhere for comprehensive environmental impact assessments of in-stream tidal energy. I guess because there haven...

Just received this great concept photo from the team involved in the development of the Joggins Fossil Cliffs project on Chignecto Bay in t...

Ooooooh, too cold to do my usual dog walk from town to the beach this morning (-21 C) so I heaved Belle in the back of my VW bug and drove o...

My final New Year's wish for the Bay of Fundy is in such stark contrast to the green tidal energy project I've been describing...it...

Sourced these photos of OpenHydro's style of turbine. The above-surface platform shown on the one photo is primarily for demonstration ...

Just in the news this weekend: Nova Scotia Power has picked an Irish firm to provide its first in-stream tidal turbine for an experiment i...

Further to previous posts about tidal energy, here's an interesting artist's rendition of the type of turbine that could be used to...

After posting my "100 billion tonnes" high/low tide photo a few days ago, I received these photos & a note from Susan at the M...

Further to my 2nd Bay of Fundy New Year's wish that none of our whales get injured or killed by shipping this year... As evidenced by my...

Unless you've actually seen the tides here on the Bay of Fundy, it's a bit tricky to get your head around exactly what 100 billion t...

Just had a note from the folks who operate Inn on the Cove & Spa in Saint John on the New Brunswick side of the Bay of Fundy witnessing ...

I just came across this great aerial map of the Minas Passage between Parrsboro and Cape Blomidon, the narrowest channel in the Bay of Fundy...

I forgot to mention the potential of the Bay of Fundy's tidal energy resource. It is estimated that a single generator in the Minas Chan...

I thought I'd explain my Bay of Fundy New Year's wishes in more detail. #3 - Fundy Tidal Energy In the 1970s there was a move to cre...

I'm not much of a resolution maker but as we move into the new year I realized that I do have three hopes for our beautiful bay in 2007:...

The Bay of Fundy lobster season closes in our area (zone 35) tomorrow so our Christmas day feed was well-timed. We piled a dozen lobsters on...

Weather forecast is not looking very 'white' for Christmas around the Bay of Fundy this year. However, we had a couple nice snowfall...

Just heard about an early "Christmas gift" for one of the Bay of Fundy's most intriguing natural attractions: the Joggins Foss...

Decorating oranges with cloves is another Bay of Fundy Christmas tradition. Oranges can be completely covered in cloves (and later tucked i...

Finally got around to making my Christmas cookies this week. One of my favourite culinary exercises involves taking customary Bay of Fundy i...

So much for winter on the Bay of Fundy! It's plus 5 degrees C today and all the pretty snow has melted away. Here's a video of that ...

I had such a great result with the winter beach photos that I decided to video the high tide beach at the edge the Parrsboro harbour. I fina...

I just can't resist adorning our historic sea captain's house (inside & out) on the Bay of Fundy with the best acoutrements that...

After a delightfully warm and colourful autumn on the Bay of Fundy, the weather has moved on to the next chapter of our storybook seasons: w...

Ah well this news is timely, seeing as we've been talking about whales a lot this week... From London, England... the International Mari...

The area where Right whales calve, off the coast of the southeastern United States, is the home to three major shipping ports. This means th...

Since we're on the topic of Right whales, I thought you might like to know a bit more about them... From the 11th century to the early 2...

I always knew that the Bay of Fundy's northern right whales headed south for the winter, but I've only recently thought about where ...

Good news to report this week. About 40 rare North Atlantic right whales that were lingering in the Bay of Fundy are finally heading south. ...

Wrack lines are rows of seaweed, shells pieces, driftwood, etc. that run the length of the beach marking the place where the tide reaches it...

I've heard of people having their weddings at lighthouses, etc., but today heard of something even more fun (okay, so I'm a car nut!...