Fundy Coastal Drive starting at Saint John

Waypoint introductions and full write-ups

1. 1. Saint John

   Saint John sits at the mouth of the Saint John River on the Bay of Fundy, a city of about eighty-eight thousand with the dock cranes of a working port, the red-brick faces of a Victorian downtown and a reputation for fog that is not undeserved. The bay beside it has some of the highest tides in the world, and the effect is on show at the Reversing Falls, where the river is squeezed through a narrow gorge. At low tide the river pours out to the sea in rapids; at high tide the sea pushes upstream; and for a short time in between the water is flat. It is an odd sight, and a good reminder that the real boss here is the moon.

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   Recorded stop-planning note

   May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.

   Planning note

   Saint John sits at 0 km, early in the day. Next is Moncton.

2. 2. Moncton

   People in Moncton talk about the river as if it had moods, and they are right. The Petitcodiac slides past the downtown as a wide channel of brown mud at low tide, then rises in a wave when the Fundy tide pushes in, a tidal bore that travels upstream every day. For a while the river was dammed by a causeway, which strangled the flow, and gates were later opened to let the water through again, so the bore is back and the fish are following. It is one of the more hopeful environmental stories in the Maritimes.

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   Recorded stop-planning note

   May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.

   Planning note

   Moncton comes up 150 km in.

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