The trail is edging the Ocean along North Head...
... winding through grasses, flowers, ferns and trees... yet close to the bluffs... tumbling...
... in some instants just few steps away...
... makes me uneasy...
Here we are, on the ferry to Grand Manan...
... an island at the mouth of Bay of Fundy known for whales, birds, bluffs...
... and dynamics of nature propelled by great break in Earth's crust, glaciers, and high tides...
... the ocean is blue... and these clouds ... yes, this is about water...
Hopewell Rocks is the point to observe striking Bay of Fundy tides and the effects they have on the land edging the Ocean. Chocolate River, as the Ocean is popularly called here for her color and her flow, moves billions tonnes of water against the shore everyday... ... advancing and retreating on the planetary timeline... ... sculpting the coast over many millennia... ... and in this moment...
Johnson's Mills Shorebird Reserve, Bay of Fundy, Canada
Bay of Fundy is a special place... with the world's largest tides, up to 14 meters...
We have just arrived on the shores of the Reserve -
the stopover for thousands of sandpipers on their migration to South America. Birds stop here for food and there is plenty in the tidal mudflats. So much so that they double their weight in just three weeks, before resuming non-stop flight to the South.
It is low tide... the mudflats extend far into distance...
... the Ocean is compressed to a thin line on the horizon and birds are scattered all over the surface...
... with hours passing, the thin line gets thicker and birds come closer...
... hundreds... perhaps thousands...
... overflying the area in unison exhibits... so airy, vivid, joyful... without worry about the long flight...
After full six hours, the ocean reaches the coast...
... the flat is wavy... and birds are coasting just to stretch their wings...
