New Boondockers And Something Else

As many of our readers know we are members of the “Boondockers Welcome” organisation. Members allow boondockers to stay on their private property for a number of nights. The idea is not to cheat the campgrounds and RV-Parks, even though users will save the camp fees, but the most interesting part is meeting new folks and making friends. Over the years we have had many people visiting us on Campobello, thereby building a network where we could stay overnight. Since 2012 we have been host to 31 boondockers, 11 of those just this year. Our last boondockers just left. Dale and Annie Klein with son Elliot and daughter Alice are now on their way north. Via Moncton,NB they will be entering the Province of Prince Edward Island where they will be staying at our friend’s place Booby Weir at Charlottetown. This family is on a one-year all North American journey, traveling with a 26ft travel trailer. Son Elliot is writing a blog http://intothetransporter.blogspot.ca Check it out to follow their travels! Monday will be the start of a new job for me. A New Brunswick Bus company was looking for a new driver and I was offered a job there. So with that settled we are set to stay home. It’s gonna be our first winter on Campobello Island. We considered to get our trailer and the ambulance van from Alberta but might just go for finding a cheap car for the commute to job. Yesterday we have been looking at a Volvo V70. It looked really nice with no rust, but had a few issues we didn’t like. So I guess we will have to look a little more.

Rain Storm

There had been a lot of warnings against what was about to come. And it sure looked scary. A huge green blob on the weather map was moving up from the south. And it meant RAIN. Lots of rain! Yet, despite the warnings, we were hopeful that the brunt of it would move north over the mainland. But during the afternoon it started pouring down. I heard the rain playing the drum on our roof. There were breaks in the rain. 30 minutes – enough to take a quick walk with Molly. Then it started all over again. Yet we don’t complain. This is only the third big rain this summer and sooner or later it was bound to happen. But what’s coming after this might turn out to be of a much bigger impact. They have called it Joaquin and it is a hurricane. It might hit the Maritimes Monday or Tuesday. The tide was very high today and we ventured out to North Road Harbour to see the fishing vessels. They were almost to the top of the dock. Then we went to the ferry landing and where there usually is a beach 60ft. wide there was nothing left today. We drove down to Mulholland Light and from there we looked over to the Lubec breakwater. Water was freely flowing over the top. I had never seen so much water in the “Narrows”.                  Harbour Seals waiting for a meal coming with the current                    International Bridge between Lubec,ME and Campobello

The Fundy Bay Tides

Each day 160 billion tons of seawater flows in and out of the Bay of Fundy during one tide cycle — more than the combined flow of the world’s freshwater rivers!  The time cycle between a high tide and a low tide is, on average, 6 hours and 13 minutes. As such, you can reasonably expect to see at least one high and one low tide during daylight hours. Tide times move ahead approximately one hour each day, and tide times vary slightly for different locations around the Bay. Are the Bay of Fundy tides a 50-foot wall of water? The Bay’s tides do officially measure 50 feet in height but the tidal bore (just one of several ways to see the tides) is not a 50 foot wall of water twice a day. A tidal bore appears as a backflow of water into a river. A tidal bore can be around 10ft tall and people are rafting (or surfing) it. Here, at the Passamaquoddy Bay, we are seeing an average daily change of about 24ft-27ft (between the tides. So why are tides different in different areas? It's not related to latitude. Tides are caused by the gravity of the moon, which pulls the water away from the surface in what is essentially an extremely long-period wave (the period of a wave is the length of time it takes the entire length of a wave to pass a fixed point) that follows the movement of the moon. I won't get into the more gradual patterns such as spring tides and neap tides, but the differences in the tides that different areas get are actually a function of the geography of the area. As a result, there are two general patterns of tides: diurnal tides, meaning an area that receives only one high tide and one low tide each day, and semidiurnal tides, which are observed in ares that recieve two high and two low tides every day. Also, coastlines that are exposed generally have less difference between high and low tide, while enclosed coastlines like the fjords of Iceland can have up to fifty feet between high and low tides. Factors such as the depth and breadth of the bodies in which tides occur and the configuration of shorelines affect the tides. Tides are also modified by the friction of the water against sea bottoms. Today, on September 30, we have a max. high tide of 26.8ft and a low of just 1.8ft. A local photographer took the pictures below. It illustrates the tidal effects along a building.

A Freighter Arrives To Eastport

I was busy with our WEBER grill preparing Italian sausages when I saw a freighter about to arrive at Eastport. He was pretty close our Canadian side of the bay before he took course right through the sunny glare towards Eastport.                         Hoping for a great sunset after supper, I drove down to Friar’s Bay, but the sun disappeared behind some dark clouds. I still got a half decent picture of the illuminated sky. Met a lonely periwinkle – gathering old guy. This kind of snail gathering has been done out here for generations. Periwinkles are considered a delicacy, but I have never tried it. I kinda think that snails, frogs and other uncommon food sources should not be ending up on MY plate.