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St. John, New Brunswick October 2, 2006
Talk about rain!!!! Almost 85% of the region is still unsettled with more than half of the province currounded by coastline with most of its inhabitants residing along its easily accessible waterways. This province links Nova Scotia with the rest of Canada. New Brunswick is surrounded by water on three sides and has a long relationship with the sea. Especially along the south coast, where Saint John is located, the rise and fall of the sea is quite dramatic. Tides in the Bay of Fundy are the highest in the world, because of the Bay's funnel shape. Twice a day, 100 billion tons of seawater flow into the Bay, then out again. This volume is equal to one day's flow of all the worlds rivers! At Chignecto Bay, in the east, the water rises 52 feet above the low tide level. A whirlpool called "Old Sow" is sometimes visible off Deer Island on the approaches to Saint John. We took a tour to a town located at the end of the Saint John river. When we crossed the bridge in Saint John the flow of the river was upstream because of the high tide. When we returned the tide was going down and the flow of the water was downstream. The only pictures that we could take are of the river at the bridge.
The boat you see in the river is a tour boat. It is apparently a thrill ride to plunge through the rapids of the returning tide.
Across the river is a paper pulp plant, one of the major employers in the area.
We were glad to be able to sit in a dry bus even though we could hardly see through the windows at times. Such are the breaks of traveling. Return to New England Advance to Halifax
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