Sunday, July 16, 2023

Other pictures from around the Bay of Fundy

Some other pictures from our visit at Fundy National Park:

The poor Jeep looks like it has been off-road mudding... I guess it has, but the "off-road" was when there was construction, and the Jeep was getting mud kicked up from Gracie while it was being towed.

Carl had the Starlink attached at the front of Gracie at the campground in Fundy National Park to give the best unobstructed access to the satellites.

We stopped in Alma, just outside Fundy National Park, after we had visited Hopewell Rocks at high tide. It was an hour or two after high tide at that point, but the boats at the pier were still floating...

... fishing boats tied up at the pier in Alma...

... and a couple of others tied up at the pier.

Enjoying one of the red chairs outside a restaurant and lodge in Alma...

Selfie with the selfie stick used as a tripod...

and another selfie with a local moose in town.

Carl is disappointed because, although we've seen a lot of signs warning to watch out for moose, we have only seen two, and just briefly, alongside the road in Newfoundland. We thought we'd see more, so decided that we should get a picture with this one!

We had seen a menu for the Alma Lobster Shop in town, and the choices looked good, so we headed there for lunch.

More selfie-stick used as a tripod pictures...

... and yet more. We sat outside for our lunch, enjoying the sun, the breeze, and the view out over the Bay of Fundy.

We got two lobster rolls and a bowl of seafood chowder. We'd tried each of these before, and weren't overly impressed with them before, nor this time. I guess we aren't fans of lobster rolls nor of seafood chowder!

Inside the Alma Lobster Shop

Lifesize lobster?

Just like the moose, lots of signs, but no lobsters crossing that we could see!

We went back to the pier area -- it was now low tide...

... all the boats were resting on the bottom. The boat launch was being used by a dump truck that was going in and out of the harbor area -- we never saw exactly what it was doing.

The white boat with the red trim on it has markings that indicates that it supplies lobster for the Alma Lobster Shop (where we ate).

Later in the day on Thursday, we were walking around one of the loops in the campground and found an overlook of Alma.

Zooming in, we could see that the tide was still out and the boats were still at the pier.

But, on a walk Friday morning, we could see that the tide was in, and many of the boats had left -- maybe the night before yet to come in.

Obviously, the fishermen need to be very attuned to the tides as they can only go out or come in at high tide -- so when they go out, they would need to be out about 12 hours.

Alma is a cute little town - buoyed by tourism during the summer with people from Fundy National Park and Hopewell Rocks passing through. We were glad that we had a couple of hours to spend walking around in town.

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