Friday, August 23, 2024: Still exploring Parrsboro. We drove into Parrsboro today, saving our butts the two miles of gravel on the 7 mile ride to town. We took a hike out onto the Two Island Beach, with the locals warning us not to get caught by the incoming high tide. The Bay of Fundy is famous for experiencing the “Highest Tides in the World!” At low tide, you can walk out to the Two Islands (we were too late for that, though) and camp overnight if you’re so inclined. We didn’t experience that this trip, but maybe on a future outing?!
The other thing the Bay of Fundy is famous for is geology: “The cross section of geological time exposed by the tides highlights the formation and subsequent break up of [the supercontinent] Pangaea,” and dinosaurs: “The Bay of Fundy is the only place where there are abundant bones and footprints from rocks of both ages. This has given paleontologists a rare opportunity to study the changes that occurred at a critical juncture in earth history known as the Triassic-Jurassic boundary.” Bicycle touring is healthy AND educational!
That afternoon, we drove to the trailhead of the Ward’s Falls hike, about 5 miles from town (excuse me, 9.5 kilometers, we’re in metric territory here! I’m still going to write in miles, though). The hike crosses 16 bridges on the way to the falls. Very pretty, though Ward’s falls itself wasn’t extremely impressive. We could’ve scaled the makeshift rope and aluminum ladder to get a higher vantage point (see the pic with Dana leaning on her trekking pole), but decided we didn’t need a visit to the ER as part of this trip.
After bathing the hike’s grime away in the stream near the trailhead, we headed to the Harbour View restaurant for our first seafood dinner in this pescatarian’s heaven. I had the scallop dinner while Dana went for the haddock. Yum. We also were alerted by Charlie to look up Timi, who worked at the restaurant and is married to Michael — a local realtor. Well, by a quirk of fate, Timi was our server and we surprised her by saying, “You must be Timi!” Indeed she was. And what a story. She immigrated from Hungary in 1998 to Banff to participate in the violin master class. Anyway, the restaurant is a side gig for this professional violinist and you can read more about her here.
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