Ken's Journal St Martins, New Brunswick |
| St Martin is also "famous" for the tide carved sea caves in the cliffs just east of the harbor. Just beyond St Martin is the Fundy Trail Parkway, a provincial park. The park is a big attraction in the area and the St Martin sea caves are on the way. | |
The sea caves at low tide - you can see all the tourists on the flats! Actually, that's the floor of the ocean they're walking on! |
And later at high tide. You can see the weather has deteriorated quite a bit too - normal for this area. |
The larger cave. |
Another view. |
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| So here's a little photography tutorial. This is the "St Martin Wave." At least that's what I named it. Anyhow - the photo on the left was taken with a polarizer filter and the one on the right was taken without. A polarizer is useful for much more that just darkening the sky. I pretty much have one on the camera all the time and use it for reducing glare - as seen here. Once you cut out the glare, you can see the true color of what it is you are shooting. It'll even cut glare on a window so you can shoot what's behind the windows. A polarizer doesn't work all the time as the usefulness depends on your angle to the glare, but it works enough that everyone should have one. | |
Further down the coast is the Fundy Trail Parkway. This is a "flower pot" formation seen from one of the overlooks. The force of the severe tides erode these formations all along the Fundy. You'll see more of these once I get to Hopewell Rocks. |
The Salmon River at the end of the Fundy Trail Parkway. This parkway is a dead-end. You have to go back to St Martin the way you came in. |
The "Beach" on the Fundy next to the Salmon River. |
More "Beach." There were actually some people on blankets sun-bathing on this stuff. |
"Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything." Charles Kuralt, On the Road With Charles Kuralt |
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