Rob-n-Hild, Eastward Ho!
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Truro Tidal Bore 16.2 km walking. 357 metres climbed 
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| We had a long walk this morning and had lunch in Victoria Park in Truro. Then we sat down at the Fundy Discovery Site to watch the tidal bore come in (and make dinner!). We actually walked down to the Discovery Site first thing after breakfast (well after tea after breakast, as we always make ourselves a proper cup of tea in our room after breakfast in hotels!). Rob had seen that low tide was due at about 9.45 today and we had planned to film a full tide cycle with a high tide around 4 pm. Only we hadn't understood the whole deal with the tidal bore, as here in Truro we are on the Salmon River not on the Bay of Fundy itself and the water only rises when the tidal bore comes up the river. With that information (and an estimate of when to be back for the bore) we switched to going for a walk instead. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| On the recommendation of the nice lady in the Discovery Site (who had patiently explained to Rob about the tidal bore) we went to Victoria Park in the middle of Truro where there is a big staircase(!) going up the side of a valley. Hild was hooked at the word "stairs", but I don't think the lady understood that we were walking as the route she explained to get to the park referred to lots of roadworks. Hild found a trail though and we had a nice trip up to Victoria Park - we even saw a deer on the way. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Once at the park we followed the signs to Jacob's Ladder to find that it was actually more like a ladder than stairs with very narrow steps. Maybe they were short of wood or something! Anyway, it was long and steep, but worth it with nice views of a waterfall at the top. We tried to make a loop out of it, but there were still a lot of fallen trees after Hurricane Fiona had come through Nova Scotia in September last year. After some scrambling over and under logs, we got to a road to come back down and have some lunch. There was a round picninc table (for a change) by the stream where we watched quite a few doggies getting some paddling practice. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| And then it was back to the Fundy Discovery Site in plenty of time to get a good spot and set up Tøfflus with his time-lapse function (taped to the arm of the chair) to record things. We took a lot of time-lapse film with Tøfflus which Hild has edited and are about 100x speed below. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| This is about half an hour (in real time) showing the action as the bore comes through and the level rises, covering the mud flats. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| This is the full cycle - almost 3 hours in real time. Nothing happens really until the bore comes in. Then the river flows upstream and the water rises for about an hour. Then it calms down and turns back going the other way slowly - and we went home! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| This one is just a small section - at real speed! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coming up: Hopewell Rocks - the other side of Fundy! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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