At Bay of Fundy New Brunswick, Canada

Hi kids,
We arrived here 3 days ago.  We are staying in a campground bout 30 feet from the Bay of Fundy.  The picture is of me waiting for the tide to come in.  Here tides go out 30 feet.  At low tide you can walk a block out in the water.  Like all this area the beach is covered with stones, so if you wanted to play on the beach, you would gather stones.  There are no shells or sand.  We walked out to some caves in the side of a cliff the first day we were here at low tide.  We went back there today and the caves could not be seen.  They were under water.  We went to a church supper yesterday where they served Salmon.  I learned that there is no such thing as commercial fishing for salmon.  All salmon that says it came from the Atlantic is farmed raised.  Over 500 wooden boats were made here in the late 1800s- early 1900s.  Timber cutting was the main employer is some little towns.  A lot of the lumber was taken by ship to England to make ships and other needed things.  England had all ready cut down most of their trees making ships.  All most everyone I have talked to goes to Florida during the winter.  It is very cold and snowy here.  The big thing they do here  and all up the coast from Maine up is  catch lobsters in little wood traps they put on the bottom of the Bay.  They are stacked up all over the place and every restaurant serves lobsters in hot dog buns for lunch.  I had fish cakes for lunch yesterday  Went to a market  in St Johns that has been around since 1880 and got the fish cake there.  The fish was mixed in with mashed potatoes and fried.  It was okay.  I got a dish called poulain.  It was french fries covered in something like mozzarella cheese and gravy.  Hmm.  Went to see a place there called Reversing Falls where the water from the Bay of Fundy is suppose to come in so strong in the river that the water falls flow backwards away from the sea.  It was going backwards, but it was more like a rapids than a water falls.  We took a trip up a road called Fundy trail today and saw a pretty water falls and beautiful  views of the Bay.