The Bay of Fundy, Parrsboro, NS

 This picture is the view from our good friends Lisa and John's home in Parrsboro, Nova Scotia where we are lucky enough to have our 5th wheel parked on their land. They have 30 acres of heavily forested area that is elevated up 80 feet from the roadway. The view is simply breathtaking.

The Bay of Fundy is home to one of the most powerful tidal energy resources on the planet. The sun,
moon and the unique geological shape of the Bay of Fundy all combine to push 160 billion tonnes of water through the Bay every tide. That's four times more than the estimated combined flow of all the freshwater rivers in the world. The tides have one complete cycle every 12 hours.
FORCE (Fundy Ocean Research Centre for Energy) is Canada's lead test centre for tidal energy technology. FORCE collaborates with industry, government, and researchers to study the interaction between tidal turbines and the Bay of Fundy environment. FORCE's test site is in the Minas Passage area of the Bay of Fundy near Parrsboro, Nova Scotia. Research suggests up to 2500 megawatts of clean, renewable energy may be safely extracted form the Minas Passage, equal to power for nearly one million homes.

 

The picture above is at the Parrsboro Harbor in Nova Scotia at high tide, which is 45 feet or a 4 story apartment building.

The picture above is at the Parrsboro Harbor in Nova Scotia at low tide. It takes 6 hours to go from high tide to low tide. The lighthouse is 24 feet tall and the distance in the harbor is over a mile long.

Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada

Today we got to see and experience Niagara Falls, in beautiful Ontario, Canada. These falls are one of the seven natural wonders of the world. A spectacular sight to see and feel as it delivers more than 2,800 cubic meters of water that tumble 13 stories every second. Visitors has been taking trips to the base of the falls since the mid 1820's. The legendary boat tour of Niagara Falls is Canada's most iconic visitor experience. Visitors will experience the boat tour of the Great Gorge, American Falls, Bridal Veil Falls and Horseshoe Falls. The boat, named  Hornblower is a 700-passenger catamaran boat.

Were Off and run into problems on our 2nd day...

Yikes!! What a close call. On our second day, while travelling through South Dakota we stopped at a rest stop in the middle of no where and discovered some major problems with two of our trailer tires. The tire above was worn down to the steel belts and there was a large split in it, we are astounded that it did not blow out on the highway. The second tire had a huge bulge on the side and was ready  to blow as well. We definitely had some angels watching out for us and feel incredibly lucky, and grateful to have escaped a very serious situation. Thank you God for watching over us and keeping us safe. We feel blessed!
After having all four tires replaced at a substantial cost; mainly due to after hours emergency assistance we were able to continue our journey to Elkhart, Indiana. It was there that we discovered that we had two bent axels which explained the problems with our tires. After all was said and done we had the axels replaced and continued our journey safely to Niagara Falls, Ontario.

 

 

 

Almost Ready to Go...

For the month of July we were busy getting ready for our extended trip. Our trailer is packed and we are almost ready to hit the highway. We are getting very excited and feel so grateful that we have this opportunity to pursue this dream. We feel blessed!

High River Air Show

  On July 24 before our journey east begins we attended the High River air show. These are pictures of the Canadian Snow Bird Flying team. They are spectacular to watch as they do all kinds of dangerous flying maneuvers and we were pretty well right underneath them. It is kind of fitting that they call their flying team Snowbirds as that is what we do in the winters, head south and become snow birds. To bad we don't know how to fly like them. Keep abreast as our journey draws closer to becoming a reality.

Our Adventures begin again...

Its been almost 2 years since we have posted anything on this blog site. Sorry for that. The reason is because we have not traveled for the last 2 years. Our daughter has been living with us for the last couple of years and we have been helping her get started in her life's journeys.
One of our bucket list trips, and long desired dream was to take an extended trip and travel across beautiful Canada to tour the east coast; the Maritime Provinces. After touring the Maritime Provinces we travel down the US eastern coast line and head south to Florida for the winter. After touring Florida, we travel the magnificent Gulf of Mexico, then head to the Pacific coast and then home. Basically, we want to travel around North America's coast line from the east, south and west. We are very excited and happy that this dream is now becoming a reality. This journey that we are about to embark on is going to be approximately 9 months in duration. We are leaving on August 1, 2014 and plan on returning on April 1st, 2015. We plan on taking lots of pictures and gathering lots of data from the areas that we plan on visiting and will be adding this to our blog site. Our adventure is about to begin very soon, so for those of you that are following our adventures we hope you will be in awe as much as we plan on being.

Cheers!

Our Best Friend

                                                                                                                                                  Monday, Sept 10, 2012

Today was a sad day for our family as we lost a very special pet and friend. These are a few pictures of our dog Ripley who has enriched our lives in the 10 years that we had him. For those of you that have ever met our dog, knew how special he was to us. We got him when he was only a few months old so he never knew another family but ours. He was always there for us and showed nothing but unconditional love to all our family. He was especially very protective of Susie, he was mommies little shadow and where ever Susie was Ripley was right there. Ripley was a great traveling companion and had never missed a vacation with us and since retirement has always been by our side. You only had to mention the word camping or vacation and he would get very excited. He, especially loved going to the ocean and running up and down the beaches smelling fish and going on hikes or any new adventure, these were some of his geatest joys. We remember Ripley with great happiness and love as he was such an important part of our family. May he rest in peace.