NS Adventures
July 18, 2018 10:45 am Leave your thoughts
Welcome back everyone! In my last blog I talked about the operations processes where I work (LP-East River) so if you missed it and are interested, go back and have a look. In this blog I will be talking about some of the Nova Scotia adventures I’ve experienced so far this summer – maybe it’ll inspire some of you readers to come visit our beautiful province. While reading this blog, I want you to think about how a healthy environment effects each of these experiences and how they could be different if the environment wasn’t valued as much as it is here in NS.
I may as well admit it, I’m writing this blog on a beach, soaking up some sun. I’m lucky enough to be able to travel to this beach every lunch hour because it is only a short distance from the mill. That is probably one of my favourite things about NS, no matter where you are in the province you are never far away from the ocean.
Cave Exploring
There is a locally famous cave located near my hometown of Shubenacadie, NS which I visited with a few friends recently. This cave lies within a series of gypsum cliffs which you can observe in the video. The cave itself inside is quite large, I would guess 20 meters high and about 40 meters wide. Inside the cave was extremely dark. Even with a large spotlight, it was hard to get a picture. The day we went to the cave it was about 30 °C outside, when we went inside the cave it was about 20 °C. Needless to say it was great going in the cave to a little natural air conditioning, but going back out to the hot air was very unpleasant. After exploring the cave there is a trail which brings you on top of the gypsum cliffs – where the view was amazing. There was also a river which goes along the bottom of the cliffs, so after the hike up to the cave, we cooled off in the river.
Fishing
One of my favourite summer past times is fishing. So far this summer I haven’t gotten out fishing as much as usual, but I’ve still made a few great memories. I was able to capture some great videos of chain pickerel being caught and also released with my GoPro. Check out the video to see!
Tidal Bore Rafting
In the summer months I work part-time on weekends as a tour guide for a company called River Runners. Tidal Bore Rafting is something that is very unique to the Shubenacadie River. It is definitely something that should be put on your bucket list. The Shubenacadie River is a tidal river and when the tide comes in the sand bars throughout the rivers cause the water to “kick up” into rapids. Unlike white water rafting, which some of you may be familiar to, the rapids in the Shubenacadie River die off as the water raises, so to get more rapids, you have to basically chase the tide up the river. It is hard to capture the experience of tidal bore rafting in words so check out the video.
Burntcoat Head Park
Burn coat head is a public park where you can witness the world’s highest tides and learn about how tides work. It actually has the Guinness world record for the highest tides in the world, which average at around 17.0 meters. This park overlooks the Bay of Fundy so at low tide you can hike around the sea floor and around a little island (you can see this in the video). I put a comparison in the video so you can see the water level at low tide and then again at high tide.
That’s all for blog #3! I hope I’ve inspired some of you to start planning your NS vacations.
-Mandy