Bay of Fundy Blog

With all our various connections to the 'Mother Countries' (England, Scotland & Ireland), here in the Bay of Fundy region, there...

Big excitement this weekend at the Joggins Fossil Cliffs UNESCO World Heritage Site in Nova Scotia: one of its earliest fossil discoveries i...

With just over 7 months left in the global New7Wonders of Nature campaign I decided to pop over to meet one of our 'competitors' in ...

Big news this week on the garden scene here on the Bay of Fundy! Kingsbrae Garden in St Andrews, New Brunswick, received a “Top Five North ...

One of my winter projects was to finish up the edits on the 10 new Bay of Fundy Travel Show episodes we filmed last summer and fall around t...

Well, it's a rare winter here when we have either a) enough snow, or b) the right type of snow, to partake in formal snow fort building....

Among several events that took place during the Canada Games this month to promote the Bay of Fundy in the New7Wonders of Nature campaign wa...

We're thrilled to be hosting the Canada Games in our region this week and next. The Games take place every 4 years and are the country...

Luckily for the Canada Games, now taking place in our region, we've had an unusual amount of snow this winter. The Bay of Fundy is in th...

Big excitement at the official Opening Ceremonies of the 2011 Canada Games in Nova Scotia tonight: I joined the two "Bay of Fundy Premi...

One of the best ways to close the travel loop around our horseshoe-shaped bay is to traverse its entrance aboard the Fundy ferry. I took thi...

No doubt about it: our Bay of Fundy beaches are well-loved and oft-visited by locals year round. Lovely in the 'fair weather' months...

I couldn't resist popping this post in the middle of my winter series...Today is Australia Day, a perfect opportunity to announce the fo...

One of the peculiarities of our sculpted coast in winter here on the Bay of Fundy is frozen waterfalls emanating from the cliffs in random l...

Winter is one of the best times to explore the Bay of Fundy...that is if you are enchanted by isolated two-tone seascapes, random ice cakes,...

Most of the time I'd rather eat Bay of Fundy sardines than drop them but if you're looking for a very bay way to ring in the new y...

Went down to the beach this afternoon to find our Christmas lobster dinner all lined up and ready to cook. Look closely to see them 'cra...

Christmas wouldn't be Christmas on the Bay of Fundy without the annual tree hunt. No city parking lots with strings of lights for us, no...

Well, I rarely make two blog posts with video content in a row but I just couldn't resist sharing this preview video of this Sunday'...

Although the Bay of Fundy is horseshoe-shaped lots of visitors and locals make a loop of it by taking the "Fundy ferry". It's ...

Marine biologists are reporting that a humpback whale has broken the world record for travel by any mammal, swimming at least 9,800 kilometr...

Sometimes our visitors don't realize that it takes 6 hrs and 13 minutes for the Bay of Fundy's tides to go from high to low then fr...

Anyone living in upper Bay of Fundy is quite aware that large tracts of our coastal land are currently protected from tidal inundation by dy...

With all this crazy tide stuff we see some funny sights in these parts: here's a photo I took of some folks sitting out on the ocean flo...

Big news on the geology front in a section of our Bay in New Brunswick: officials with the Global Geoparks Network, a UNESCO program, announ...

There's a very exciting event taking place tomorrow, October 2, in Albert County, New Brunswick: the launch of a biography of well-known...

Not only does the Bay of Fundy boast the highest tides in the world but we also have another worldwide claim to fame: the world's bigges...

There are spendid days during my travels around our region when the light is just right, when the perspective is perfect, when it feels like...

It's been a couple of months since I updated our readers on the Bay of Fundy's plight to become one of the New7Wonders of Nature. We...

Unless you live on the Bay of Fundy you may not be aware that tide heights vary every day. A typical tide chart such as this Dept of Fisheri...

Living on the edge of the Atlantic ocean it's not uncommon for our region to pick up the odd 'leftover' storm or hurricane from ...

By all accounts - from the folks who know how to predict such activities - the annual autumn leaf change here in the region this Fall is sup...

Although there are many ways for visitors to get to know our Bay, I'm always a big proponent of reaching out to touch the Bay of Fundy b...

Just a quick footnote to my last post: that CBC segment about Bay of Fundy in the New7Wonders of Nature campaign made it also to CNN's w...

Yesterday I was pleased to welcome a celebrity guest to the upper Bay of Fundy: world-renowned curler and television personality, Colleen Jo...

As I noted it my last blog post it's truly been an amazing year for whale watching in Bay of Fundy. Whale watching is a great outdoor ad...

Busy days these days for me around the Bay of Fundy. On sunny days I've been out filming 10 more episodes of our Bay of Fundy Travel Sho...

Last year I blogged about low lobster demand putting such downward pressure on lobster prices that fishers were in danger of spending more t...

View Fundy Whale Car Adventures in a larger map Folks who visit our bay are often quite keen to claim they've sighted a whale during t...

I'm Pisces so that may explain why I'm always keen to get near, in and on the water! This week I had the perfect chance to be on the...

Having the highest tides in the world also means having the strongest tides ~ and that's what captivates those dreaming of harnassing...

At long last our Bay of Fundy whale car is now revealed! Here are a couple photos from its weekend adventures and there are plenty more phot...