Ken's Journal
No. 6 - Summer 2007

St Martins, New Brunswick
July 26-30, 2007 - Days 11-15 on the road. Part IV.


 

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.

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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