My apologies to fellow blogger Terri McCulloch for trespassing on her Bay of Fundy, but I'd like to share some photos I took recently when I joined an interpretive walk along the Fundy cliffs at Five Islands Provincial Park on the Glooscap Trail midway between Truro and Parrsboro.
The walk was part of Parrsboro's annual Gem & Mineral Show and was led by Howard
Donohoe, a geologist now retired from the Natural Resources department of Nova Scotia. He's an expert on the rock formations and fossils of these shores.
Interpretive walks to different areas of the Bay of Fundy shore are always a feature of the show, but Five Islands and its rock formations have always held a particularly fascination for me.
Perhaps in my next life I'll be a geologist myself, but in the meantime I'll defer to the rock guys like Howard and another Gem Show regular, John Calder, also a Natural Resources geologist. In the meantime, here are a few photos from that day.
If you decide to try it for yourself, an escort is recommended, or at least, be sure to check the tides. Tide times are usually posted at parks and various places along the shore. I like to go on the shore when the tide is going out as this leave lots of time to explore before the tide comes back in; but don't push it. The Bay of Fundy has the world's highest recorded tides and getting trapped by the incoming tide on one side and unscalable cliffs on the other can an extremently wet, or a potentially fatal mistake.
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