Bay of Fundy Blog

Work travels this week took me to one of my favourite towns on the Bay of Fundy: St Andrews. When in St Andrews I usually stay at the Fairmo...

I just heard that Saint John is getting a new waterfront facility for hosting cruise passengers. The city's cruise scene has grown from ...

Tom at Ocean Exploration Zodiac whale cruises in Tiverton, Nova Scotia, just sent me this 4 minutes video footage he taped a few day...

A Bay of Fundy recipe collection would be incomplete without a recipe for Blueberry Grunt . Grunt (not to be confused with other blueberry d...

Exciting news from the Bay of Fundy today! The upper Bay of Fundy has just been designated as a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. The full region in...

Visitors to the Bay of Fundy rightly assume they can go whale watching in the summer but are often unsure about the 'whale situation...

Here's a couple of our Fundy islands from the air - i love the layers of sediment. Great photo from a colleague, Carl Newman, from Flori...

Here's some Bay of Fundy insider information: how to enjoy a do-it-yourself, no-cost Bay of Fundy foot spa. Visit the upper part o...

This week I was delighted that w ork-related travels took me to a great little Bay of Fundy community at the opposite end of the Bay: Bear R...

Here are a few of the questions we commonly get asked about wild blueberries.... Why do they grow so well around the Bay of Fundy? ...

Those of us familiar with cattle or grain farms may be surprised to learn that there are farms around the Bay of Fundy whose sole existence ...

All of a sudden I realized I've reached two milestones with my Bay of Fundy blog: I just made my 200th post and I celebrated my one year...

Although bagged dulse is available year round in every corner store on the Bay of Fundy this is the time of year when some of the best harve...

Now that our blueberries are abundant, it's a perfect time to 'waste' a whole bunch on blueberry sorbet - combining two of my fa...

In additional to searching for rocks on the beach , there are other ways to get "up close and personal" with Bay of Fundy geology...

I just realized that since making the 'architecture' category on my blog last month, I haven't actually created many posts - yet...

You never quite know what the 100 billion tonnes of water moving into the Bay of Fundy on each tide is going to drag in... Whale tour operat...

This is definitely not the first time I've come across a field of cows grazing nonchalantly beside a million dollar view. I find quite r...

The Bay of Fundy region has the perfect soil and climate for growing blueberries. Early August bring the wild blueberry harvest season which...

One of the neat things about basalt is that other rock seams are sometimes found between its layers. A rough seam of quartz crystals lies ex...

Probably the best known example of columnar basalt around the Bay of Fundy is Balancing Rock in Tiverton, between Digby and Brier Island, No...

Basalt is the most common type of solidified lava on earth; it actually makes up most of the ocean floor. The Bay of Fundy tides, our consta...

Took advantage of the great weather this weekend to hike out to Cape Sharp lighthouse. Cape Sharp is located near the village of Black Rock,...

Just heard that the Offshore Energy Environmental Research Association will hold a series of six environmental assessment community forums s...

Yikes! I neglected to mention one more very interesting location for seeing the tides around the Bay of Fundy: the site where the highest ti...

4) One other way to see the tides is to visit a location where the tidal rapids, whirlpools or rips can be seen. The Bay of Fundy coast is d...

3) Vertical Tidal Effect - This is the effect seen at most of our wharves around the bay. This is also best seen at high then low tide but ...

Here's another way to 'see' the tides... 2) Horizontal Tidal Effect - this phenomenon occurs in many locations in the upper pa...

Speaking of questions from folks, this is probably the question Bay of Fundy-ites get asked the most: "Where can I go to 'see' ...

I had an email from someone in Texas this week. They were looking for some tips on how to read a tide chart. This is, in fact, a bit tricky ...

Just heard of an interesting event happening around the outer edge of the Bay of Fundy this week: a Plein Air Paintout ! Twelve artists from...

A glorious day today on the Bay of Fundy! We had company this weekend and did what any Fundy-ite does: took 'em to the beach. We had fun...

Last, but not least among the five types of Bay of Fundy beaches, allow me to present the often under-appreciated mud flat. Personally I thi...

Fourth in my series of beachscapes around the Bay of Fundy is the pebble beach. Here the rocks are about the size of almonds and peas; far s...

Bay of Fundy tidal turbulance often whips the lighter bits of the ocean floor into sand dunes or sandbars. At low tide these are great fun t...

The formal definition of a reef is a ridge of rock just below the surface of the water. Reefs around the coast of the Bay of Fundy are below...

Here around the Bay of Fundy there are about a half dozen types of beaches. Many beaches, particularly at low tide, have a combination of be...

Just heard today that a Bay of Fundy tidal power pilot project proposed by Nova Scotia Power and its Irish partner Open Hydro has received ...

The Bay of Fundy has become a bit of a nursery lately with the arrival of ten humpback mothers with their calves. Humpback whale calves are ...

Just when I thought I'd heard everything along comes a new, wildly zany yet oddly spiritual event: the first annual Not Since Moses run...

Where else would you expect to find copious amounts of wild peas but beachside around the Bay of Fundy? Took this photo of pea blossoms this...

Whoa, I knew I'd really caught the photography bug when I snapped this photo out of my car window while driving this week. This is a che...

A list of cool things to do around the Bay of Fundy would be incomplete without mention of another of our zany water sports: rafting the inc...

One of the other great activities to do in Saint John is to explore the newly reclaimed "Harbour Passage" waterfront trail system....