Ridin' on the Shubenacadie River

Went to the Hockey Birthplace (contested) Museum in Windsor, Nova Scotia, one of many little towns here.  Montreal also claims birthplace, but identifying with underdogs, I go with Windsor.  Lots of old hockey stuff.  

Also had their local high school uniform.  Modeled after the Carolina Hurricanes uniform of red with hurricane warning flags around the bottom.

Then later in Maitland we went to the William D. Lawrence House museum, a noted shipbuilder who built the largest wooden sailing ship ever built. See painting behind Patt and Shirley our docent.  It hauled lumber, coal and guano among other cargo during the final days of wooden sailing ships.

Here is Burntcoat.  That is an island at high tide which can be as much as 16 point something meters at its highest which is a lot of feet. Most in the world so they claim.

Here it is at low tide. Today the range between high and low was 43 feet so they said. I do not know what that is in meters. You can see the water in the bay in the far distance. That is the Bay of Fundy. Yes we are back again.  At a different location.  We have made sort of a huge, well not so big, circle.

The island is on the left in the picture below, Patt is in the picture to the right. She is not waving.  She is there though.  If you look very very closely.

This is from the front yard of where we are staying at the mouth of the Shubenacadie River where it meets the Cobequid Bay. This is high tide, obviously.  This Bay is part of Fundy.

and this would be low tide.

One of the things the Shubenacadie River is famous for is its "rapids" or "waves".  I was the last of those zodiac rafts in the photo below. I waved.  We went up river at low tide to be at the sand bars where the tidal bore — the wave created when the incoming tide meets the out-going river - creates waves or rapids at certain sand bars.

and the return a couple of hours later — we even jumped out of the boat at the far end of the trip and let the current take us up river for a bit. It was not warm— but fun. We were already very very wet.  As the boat driver said more than once.  "From time to time we may take on some spray" and we did.