Fun at Fundy

Sorry about that title, I couldn’t help myself.

We came to Fundy National Park Friday and when the fog cleared I found that the campground overlooks the little town of Alma and its small harbor. This was just after high tide.

Four hours later the boats were left sitting on the bottom as the 35 to 40 foot tide receded (maximum tide here is 40 feet, but I think it is lower than that now).

It is a beautiful setting.

Yesterday morning we drove out to Point Wolfe and walked down to the inlet there. I took this photo from the high tide line looking out to the bay.

I was excited to see this foxglove growing by the trail until I looked it up and found it is an invasive species. I hate when that happens!

It was only a five mile drive but included this covered bridge.

In the afternoon we played golf on this 9 hole course that is part of the park. When I suggested this I assumed we would play nine holes. I should have known; Bud signed us up for 18.

This is hole one, what you can’t see is that below the drop off is a small section of fairway and then a creek. There were creeks on almost every fairway, and some had two!

This is another course designed by Stanley Thompson. He is the architect that designed the course we played at Waterton Lakes in Alberta. He is obviously not deterred by uneven terrain!

Besides beautiful views there was wildlife, mostly gophers. They were quite tame, I was not using telephoto to take this picture.

The gopher seemed interested in Bud’s tee shot.

For us the course was long and tiring. Did I mention the uneven terrain? (The planks are for those hearty souls pulling hand carts.)

Even the cart ride was more interesting than relaxing.

This may look like a pretty brook to you, but to me it was a ball eater. Besides the many water crossings,

the rough was, well, rough. We ended up skipping the second play on the last two holes, and even then we took almost 5 hours to play!

But then there were the views!