Blerf Blog: Oh, Canada! What a bore... and a tide.

The third day was the Fundy.

Bay of, to be exact. We were off to see the worlds biggest tides. It was the day after a new moon, so the tides were extra high. We went to Burntcoat Head Park https://www.burntcoatheadpark.ca/ - "The exact site of the worlds highest tides..."

We got there just at low tide. You could walk waaaayyyy out onto the bay floor.

Low Tide

Dry!

Out to sea!

Sue at typical high tide level

Tide about half way up. Compare with earlier picture.

We waited until the tide was a bit more than half way to high tide and then left. Why? We were not bored...yet anyway.

We wanted to see the tidal bore, where a river actually changes direction with a small incoming tidal wave. We headed to South Maitland and the Fundy Tidal Interpretive Centre.

Tide is out. River flowing out.

Front edge of bore just appearing

Wave coming upstream.

Not bored.

Here comes the bore

The flow reversed

Full bore. Flow upstream

Fully bored. We headed for Cape Breton. With a stop in Truro for Walmart dark comedy moment.

There are no pictures, but we were a model for some "how not to" teamwork posters. The big problem didn't occur until we got to self checkout. Here's how it went down.

I was the scanner guy. I pulled an item from the cart and scanned it and put the item on scale. Sue skootched the remaining items in the cart toward the back of the cart and loaded scanned items from the scale back into cart front, saving time to get us out the door faster. ...except I didn't notice, so I kept grabbing the already scanned items in the front of the cart, rescanning them and setting them on the scale - again. Except Sue didn't notice and dutifully reloaded into the cart with that item. We could have done this all day - round and round - to hundreds of dollars for a couple dozen items, except, just then the real chaos started.

I noticed what Sue and I were actually doing and exclaimed "Uh oh. This is bad" (or maybe something saltier), just as Tom and Patti were executing a blueberry hand-off - getting the blueberries for me to scan. This distracted them. The handoff was a difficulty of 2 on a scale of 1-10. But the execution was a zero. Blueberries everywhere! I stepped on the blueberries while I was deep into examining the scanning disaster, staring at the checkout screen looking for dupes and how to get rid of them. Meanwhile, Patti was off hunting new blueberries and Sue was hunting for help. Help arrived. The Walmart employee banished us from the self checkout, made us stand in the corner, cleared the register and scanned all our stuff herself - for which we are eternally grateful...and embarrassed. We said "Sooooory!" and quickly got the heck out of there!

Kudos to the Truro Walmart.

We stopped for dinner in Baddeck, about an hour and a half from Airbnb in Ingonish. More Lobsters and some coconut cream pie! ...complete with bibs!