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Today we made a drive over to the other side of the Province.
A few pic. of the Fundy side.
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Beached Boats!
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Beach Ice.
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Re: Glooscap Land
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03/13/07 09:09 AM
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Egon,
Sure glad you got that digital camera!
I was at the Bay of Fundy a few years back. OK, maybe 20 years, but it was really neat to be able to walk down some stairs and walk on the bottom of the bay. I'll admit I was a little nervious about the tide comming in suddenly and trapping us.  This was near Alma at the National Park.
I recall reading articles in National Geographic years ago where the folks would set up nets on poles while the tide was out. When the tide came in, fish would get caught in the nets. Then when the tide went out again they'd go out in wagons and harvet their catch.
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Re: Glooscap Land
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03/13/07 09:44 AM
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Egon, I don't know where that is, but when I saw the "beached boats" I assumed it's a place with pretty high tides and that they're only "beached" because the tide was out. I saw something similar years ago at Seldovia, Alaska. In fact they had some concrete "cradles?" so you could park a boat where it would be left sitting high and dry so you could work on the bottom, the rudder, props, etc. at low tide.
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03/13/07 10:31 AM
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The Bay of Fundy lies on the north side of Nova Scotia and the south or east shores of Maine and New Brunswick.
The tides can reach almost 50 feet.
The attached site shows Cape Blomidon near where the pictures were taken.
http://visual.beige.org/novascotia/cape-blomidon-2.jpg.html
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Re: Glooscap Land
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03/14/07 08:41 AM
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Wow, Egon. Those are great photos on the website. And to think you just got that digital camera a short while ago! 
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Jass; the photo quality leaves a little to be desired. Colour and contrast have not been mastered yet.
My biggest problem with the camera is seeing the picture as it has no view finder only a screen on the back. In sunlight this screen becomes very hard to see.
Then there is also the fact that many features of the camera are not fully utilized as the screen is so difficult to see in daylight and it's easiest to just use auto, point and click!
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Gary; having sat around cogitating for a few days it comes to mind I actually saw some of the nets you mentioned. I believe they were on the Maine shores of The Bay of Fundy.
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03/15/07 08:16 AM
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Re: "My biggest problem with the camera is seeing the picture as it has no view finder only a screen on the back. In sunlight this screen becomes very hard to see. " Egon, I got an idea for you: you make one of those black hoods to attach to the back of your camera, like the old-timey cameras had. You know, the long-exposure type, that you couldn't let light into the back. Hmmm, then again, if you were walking around with a black hood over your head you could wind up causing other problems for yourself.
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Re: Glooscap Land
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The bay of Fundy has about as big a tidal range as you'll find anywhere in the civilized world (if you call it civilization.)
My first sailboat was a twin bilge keel model made to stand upright when left moored in an area with high tidal fluctuations. Regular keel boats would lay down as the tide went out and might take water before they stood upright again or damage their hull if they settled down on a rock.
It was an English made boat, an auxiliary sloop by Silhouette Marine. Its inboard auxiliary engine was a Stewart Marine sea water cooled 1 1/2 HP @1500RPM 4 stroke hand cranked Lucas magneto fired little lump of cast iron that always worked, sort of. It could push the 17 foot cabin model cruiser up to about 5-5 1/2 MPH.
It would have been quite at home at Fundy. It had a fairly short mast and small sails indicative of being designed for an area with ample wind and of course the twin keel feature that allowed it to stand upright when fully abandoned by the sea at low water.
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They do make folding "hoods" for some digital cameras for that very reason. I have two older Nikon digital cameras, CoolPix 950 and 995, and they are available for those cameras.
I don't recall if you gave the make and model of your camera, but if you do so, I'll search and see if anything is available.
Or you could possibly construct your own out of illustration board or photo mounting board. Spray paint it flat black and stick it on with velcro.
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I will figure out something. Maybe. A hood would be just too awkward to carry.
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The one's I've sen only stick off the back of the camera 2 inches or so. It wouldn't even need to be attached. Put some foam rubber on the edge and hold it in place when you need the shade.
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