On the
Road…Five Islands Provincial Park, Minas Basin, Fundy Bay, NS
Mucking
Around in the muck of the Bay of Fundy
As I have
said, the Bay of Fundy has the most extreme tides in the world. Many places feature
crazy experiences to have fun with the tides: ride the waves in a rubber raft,
drive dune buggies miles out on the shore, kayaking the tide in, to name just a
few.
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| This is a miniature of the nets they use. The outer reaches a mile across! |
No hooks
needed for Bay of Fundy fishermen, they pick their fish up! They have these
large nets that funnel the fish into a trap as the tide goes out. They have to be there to sort the
fish in time to put the ‘rejects’ out in the retreating tide. Fast work!
Five
Islands is known for a truly crazy yearly event for when the tide is out. Run
the Islands!! 5 minute race video I
had no desire to run in this muck, but I had to go out and explore. After all,
it is only mud. HAHAHAHAHAHA!! I had great plans to go out to this big island
that’s only about a mile out. But there is no way to walk ON the muck, so this is actually hard work!!
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| SLURP!!SLURP!! |
But
I found little snails, evidence of clams, little tiny fish in the streams, and
razor clam shells. Clammers were way far out-for hours of bending over and
digging in this clinging clay mud. I heard they supply the fresh clams to the
local restaurants. Most of the time I walked in the streams that are left
behind, it made the going easy and progress was made.
Now I know people are
out there all the time, but all of a sudden I got this conscious concern about
the things I was stepping on and squishing into the muck. Yes, they live in the
muck, but at just the right depth to manage a life. That’s what made me turn
back. What can I say? Some people use the mud as a skin cleanser, but I’ll take
the Dead Sea mud any day over this!!
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| View out to the 'big' island. |
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| Enough mud for me! |
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