New Brunswick: Hopewell Cape

We left Nova Scotia and returned to New Brunswick

8/12/25 - On our way back to New Brunswick, we stopped near Truro to "Ride the Tidal Bore" (a tidal bore is "a unique natural phenomenon where a powerful wave, generated by a high tide, surges up a river or narrow bay against the direction of the normal current").

This is not a picture of us but it gives a great image of what the experience was like. When the tide returned (25' from low to high) to the empty Shubenacadie River bed, our raft motored over the 4' waves that were created. It was like brown-water rafting!

We saw several bald eagles on the trip. We also motored to a bank of the river where we went mud-sliding. Sounds weird but the whole thing was very fun!! Afterwards, we drove another 2.5 hours to reach Hopewell Cape, NB.

8/13/25 - Hopewell Rocks was about 1 mile from our campground. We arrived at low tide and "walked on the ocean floor".

This explains why the tides are so high in this area. The star indicates where Hopewell Rocks is located in the Bay of Fundy.

In the afternoon, we went for a run along the wetlands and man-made dikes created between the bay and the fields.

8/14/25 - We drove about 1 hour to the Fundy National Park. As expected, all the trails were closed due to fire concerns.

Just a photo op. We didn't actually go on the trail.

We drove through the park and stopped by a lake hoping to see some wildlife along the way. At the lake, I saw a chipmunk!! (Pat and I have been joking that there is no wildlife in Canada because besides birds, we've only seen a few animals!).

We spent the afternoon in the town near the park entrance (Alma).

We had food & drink at an outside bar and watched the tide lift several lobster boats. This picture shows the same boat at 1:00pm and 3:30pm. It was interesting to figure out how they were secured so the ropes were long enough for low tide and short enough for high tide.

I left Pat at the bar while I poked around the gift shops in town. I brought Pat to the most interesting place...the lobster shop! It had a large boat-shaped tank that held about 50 live lobsters, many of them over 10 pounds. It also had a counter stacked with about 30 cooked lobsters, ranging in size from 1# to 4#, for CA$18/pound.

We decided to buy two 1.5# lobsters to reheat & eat at the RV, smoked salmon, and lobster spread.

We gave everything TWO THUMBS UP!

That evening, we saw this cute squirrel in the tree next to our RV. I guess word is getting around that we want to see more wildlife!!

8/15/25 - We drove southwest to St. Andrews, NB. Per the map above, we are so close to Maine, that our phones switched to Eastern time zone. We plan to explore St. Andrews and St. John before crossing the border into Maine in a few days.