We had one more adventure before we left the Bay of Fundy. We left New Brunswick and stopped for a few nights in Truro, Nova Scotia (scene of the aforementioned RV chassis battery failure).
If you followed along on our Alaska trip last summer, this is going to sound like a repeat. In Alaska, we saw a tidal bore on Turnagain Arm outside Anchorage. You can find that blog post here.
I’m going to repeat what I put in that Alaska blog post. Wikipedia says a tidal bore (or bore tide) is…..
…a tidal phenomenon in which the leading edge of the incoming tide forms a wave (or waves) of water that travels up a river or narrow bay, reversing the direction of the river or bay’s current. It is a strong tide that pushes up the river, against the current.
With the high tides the Bay of Fundy experiences, it should be no surprise that it would have at least one bore tide. We had to check it out. There is a visitor’s center at the end of this arm of the Bay where it meets the Salmon River. People gather here daily to watch the bore tide. We joined them.
The crowd dispersed pretty quickly after that initial wave. And to be honest, we were a little underwhelmed. In Alaska, the bore tide we saw had people surfing the incoming wave.
I asked in the Visitor’s Center if they ever had people try to surf the incoming tide here in Truro. The answer from the young lady (this was obviously her summer job) was “Um, yeah?”
Perhaps someone could ride the wave if it were a full moon and the tide was greater than 30 feet. I just googled it and didn’t find any evidence that people could/would. Still, we are glad we stopped and checked it out. Somewhere I read there are only 40 places in the world that have bore tides. We have seen 2, only 38 more to go!
Next stop…Cape Breton Island!
So — you got to see the “mini bore tide.” We saw it too but don’t think it was in the same area. Don’t know where our pictures are from that trip.
Still a fun excursion to checkmark next to the Bucket List!