news from the horizon … © n.g.

„Vegetarian“ is just an old indian word for „Bad Hunter“

In cape breton national park the mooses are even save from those vegetarians. For that reason they still rest in the gras when tourists are going to shoot „selfies“ with them. We where lucky because otherwise we might not have discovered them in that position in the woods. Eventually not only the mooses were yawning due to boredom and after all humens had moved away we alone witnessed the moment when they got up to their full size. By the way: even a moose uses the manmade trails instead of stalking through the scrubs- that´s convenience for wildlife.

Der boardwalk on the ridge of the skyline trail was said to be „breathtaking“, but we think especially when you have enough overweight. The view was fabulous but the broad walk seemed to be bit overdone. © b.g.

Today it´s sunday so i take it easy and let wikipedia explain the phaenomenon of the tides in the bay of fundy. They do it better anyhow…

„In those tibutaries the water rises extremly and the tides can rise as musch as 16meters under normal conditions and it could reach 21 meters during king tides. That´s the highest tide difference in the word. This tidal amplitude occurs from a distinctive resonance phenomenon. The total lengh of the bay is roughly the distance  a waterwave travels during a „halftide“ (ca. 6 hours) with each incoming tide from the atlantic ocean the tidal wave wich goes in and out oft he bay gets synchron amplified. A sililar effect can be generated in a filled bath tube if a back an forth swashing wave gets escalated in strict time.“

100 billion tons of water pour in and off  the bay twice each day, that´s more water than all the freshwater rivers combined on earth. Amazing! © n.g.

we asked our selves: what income might the poeple of digby neck have? The answer: lobster and scallops fishing and the whale-watching tourism. Whales next to us, that was a promise which we wanted to check out. We drove with a zodiac (a rubber dighy with a powerful outboard engine) into the bay of fundy and we were lucky. Just after 30 minutes of driving our skipper discovered the first whales. He stopped the engine, now floating and let the whales come closer. There were three adult humpbacks in the size of 12 to 15 meters. The boat wasn´t very impressive for them, they were already habituated. The small rubber boat doesn´t bite and if, their 25 to 30 tons were a weighty argument. By the way, humpbacks are very  communicative and with 190 decibel not easy to miss hearing them. The group of three were snoozing, submerged from time to time and then one ot them said with a huge jump „good bye“  to its buddies. In this moment I should`t had swapped lenses. © n.g.