Chignecto Bay

Welcome to Cape Chignecto Provincial Park, a massive, boomerang-shaped wilderness jutting violently into the Bay of Fundy. This location serves as an unparalleled terrestrial laboratory for studying extreme coastal erosion and…

We begin at the main Visitor Centre in West Advocate. This facility is the logistical gateway to the park, where multi-day hikers register before tackling the grueling, multi-day coastal loop. …

Driving roughly an hour around the park's perimeter via Route 209, we arrive at the Eatonville Day-Use area. Emerging from the dense, dark drive through the spruce forest, the landscape abruptly terminates at the coastal edge,…

Descending to Eatonville Beach, the historical narrative drastically shifts. Standing on this quiet, desolate stretch of pebble and sand, it requires intense imagination to realize that this was once a thriving, noisy hub of the…

Hiking to Lookoff 6, we encounter Squally Point. The wind here is fierce and biting, unimpeded as it whips off the bay. …

Continuing along the cliff edge, we are presented with the iconic geological formations known as the Three Sisters. These are magnificent examples of 'sea stacks'—towering pillars of rock rising vertically out of the ocean floor,…

Our final analysis requires abandoning the cliffs to engage the water directly via sea kayak, launching from Spicer's Cove. Navigating this sculpted coast from the water line provides a radically different, highly vulnerable…

Our expedition along the cliffs of Cape Chignecto brings our study to a close. Here, the Earth is visibly dynamic. …