The Adventures of Sunsette -- Texas Travels, Part II— Apr. 12

[Alliecat]

"Hi again!

"We had a little ex!pedition on Wednesday.  Mum had a meeting on the mainland and decided to ex!plore up the Bay of Fundy coast a bit too.  This qualifies as another of our BFE Backroads Tours, thanks to the horrendous chipseal on the road back inland in the dark.  At least it was paved (sorta).  In Nova Scotia it would be gravel."


Mum drove past "Duck Pond Road" and then on a whim decided to turn back and go see where that went.  We found this beach, and met a lovely senior lady, and she and Mum yakked like they'd known each other for ages.  Scarlett and I met her too, and she seemed to think it was cool that we had adventures."



"New Brunswick has a bunch of old covered bridges.  This one at Tynemouth Creek was built in 1927 and is 94 feet long."



Here we are at St. Martins, which has a lot of tourists in the summer.  All the touristy things were closed.  This bridge is NB's first two-lane one and was opened in 2022 replacing the old one."



"We found BOATS!  Yay!!  As you can see, the tide range here leaves them high and dry."






"The St. Martins sea caves draw tons of summer tourists.  On a February day, it was almost deserted.  There was just one person at the end with an annoying dog that curtailed our picture-taking."



"There was a constant pitter-patter -- and occasional crash! -- of falling rocks, so we stayed away from the overhangs and did not go in the cave."



"Yeah, it's a bad photo.  I was looking for falling rocks, okay?"



"This is the cave.  Where you can see the last icicles in the shadow is pretty much the back of it.   Would've been fun to go in, but -- did I mention falling rocks?
"The ice chunks are broken off by high tides from shallower shorelines that freeze, then carried elsewhere and left. The Bay of Fundy itself is too cold to freeze in the winter *cough* "



"Behind me you can see the highest tide line (where the icicles cut off) and the most recent tide line (the thin white line).  The tide range here is an average of 25 feet between high and low water, which leaves many of these beaches and shallow harbours with wide stretches ex-posed."



"We didn't get a lot of pictures because the little camera battery wasn't happy in the cold (Mum said she should have brought the big camera), and by this point she couldn't feel her fingers anymore.  Despite this warm light, it was minus-minus with wind chill!  Maybe we'll go back sometime on a warmer day."


"Thanks for reading!"

"Love, Sunsette  "