Hey guys, so welcome to this beautiful July day.
So today we are heading to Blomidon Provincial Park, but just
before we get there, we thought we'd stop and show you this - so this is simply
called the "look off" and it's here in the Annapolis Valley,
and you're going to get a great view the valley, and then you're going to see
there's going to be a spot where the water usually is - right now it's low tide, so
you won't be able to see a whole lot - except for mud - but in this particular
spot the difference between low tide and high tide is 30 feet, so that's like
three stories tall, so you can imagine how much water it's going to change. We're going to show you
all this a little later in the video, but for now, enjoy the view from here at the lookoff!
So, as you can see, with low tide there is absolutely no water in the spot and
these boats are high and dry at the moment, but what we'll do is we'll come
back in a little bit when the tides a little bit higher and you can see just
how much of a difference the tides here are.
Okay, so we have made it to Blomidon. We just went through and booked our campsite.
Now this is unusual for me, but I did not pre-book, only because they charge an extra nine
dollars to reserve a spot, so that's quite a bit! That's like a third of the price right there.
So we didn't bother doing that, so we went in and we have a spot now,
we haven't set up - we wanted to come because it is low tide and we wanted to
be able to walk on the bottom of the ocean. So you're going to be able to see
that it's just pretty much mud here, there's no rock. You're probably not
going to see a whole lot of seashells or anything like that once we get to the
bottom. But yeah, should be a good time. Akane has never been here
before, so I'm excited to show her. It's been super long since I've been here,
despite my parents living in this area for a few years, I really haven't been
down to Blomidon for quite a while.
So there you go. You're walking on the bottom of the ocean right now.
Even here?
Yeah!
Remember it went up three stories.
Here?
Yeah!
Here?
This is all going be water in a matter of six hours.
What do you think, does it come off in your hands?
No.
Is it all clay?
Yes.
Why red color?
Do you know why?
It's probably just the mud and clay from the bottom that's been washed up and attached to the rock.
Even PEI, just one side?
Just the Nova Scotia side is red sand and the other side is regular white sand or stone beach?
Oh, I'm not sure then.
Hey, Nova Scotian!
How can I call these guys?
That's a rock.
We call these barnacles.
Barnacles.
So what we're going to do is head all the way down to the water's edge,
and we're going to see if it's cold or not.
I have a feeling, because I know, that it will be cold.
Not too cold!
She thinks not too cold.
I always love the areas where you can get out and walk on the ocean floor, but
unlike a lot of the other places that I've been to, this is really weird in the
fact that very little gets left behind on the mud and the sand.
So certain other place you can see there's all kinds of Jellyfish or rocks or anything that gets tumbled up into the surf or the waves.
But here, very little gets left behind.
Don't!
What seems to be the problem?
Were you sinking in a little too far?
Were you getting stuck?
Why only me?
No, not only you.
I just didn't scream about it.
you're like...
You found a few of the shells here?
Nice.
Would you like for supper?
Ah, nope. I think we'll stick with the hamburgers.
hmmm, okay.
Is that ok with you?
I think you would probably need to collect quite a few of those if you wanted those just for supper.
Around 100?
Did you bring a little bucket or a barrel to stick those in?
Ah, maybe put in my pants!
Don't use this part.
Too bad, too late. Everything gets used.
So now that we are getting a little further on,
and the sun hasn't had a chance to dry this part out like it did the sand back there,
I feel like we're sinking in,
and I'm wearing sandals, and every time I flip, my flop is flinging...that's a lot of "F's",
My flip flop is flinging all over the back of my legs.
Alright, we have pretty much made it to the water's edge,
and we're going to do the ultimate water test.
Alright.
Were you just humming the Canadian National Anthem?
Yes.
Excellent.
You're making a fine young, baby Canadian!
Alright here you go!
What seems to be the verdict?
Huh?
What do you think?
Think you would like to do it more than just the top parts of your feet?
Unfortunately I don't have a bathing suit so I cannot....
That's the only reason why you're not going further than that?
Hmm hmm
Oh you could go!
That's not a bathing suit.
No, but shorter than mine.
So you'll notice as soon as we get to the water's edge the amount of seaweed
and plant life or wildlife from the ocean becomes apparent, just as soon
as you get to the water.
Example
Another example
Definitive proof
And she goes into the sea.
Okay, so Akane's found our first wildlife find.
And she smacked him on his old noggin.
Inaudible
Man, you're finding all kinds of food.
You've got that, you got seaweed, you can eat some of the dirt,
Because I love seafood!
Drink some of the sea water,
have some of those barnacles...
that's a natural tooth brush right there.
Which one?
The barnacles.
You just scrape those against your teeth and your tongue.
And after just blood everywhere.
You'll be clean for three and a half days.
If you're working for warm water, these little pools are fantastic.
Nice and warm, and the waters bringing all this little sand.
It's like a pedicure.
What do you think?
Pedicure?
Pedicure yeah.
Because of the exfoliation from the sand over your feet.
Walking along the beach like this
reminds me of - in high school I used to work at a summer camp, and it was really
nice, it was right along the water - kind of like this - so on my break I did one of
two things: I went for a walk on the beach or they had a fantastic hammock
that was set up overlooking, it would be like on top of the cliffs and it was
overlooking. It was so nice, and just walking this little section, that's where my
mind goes as looking back at that. I worked there for three summers. I went
there as a camper for six years, I just loved this so much!
It's in a little town called Pugwash, and yeah Pugwash, I just I loved it so
much, and this is exactly what it's like - middle of summer, the sun is beautiful,
there's not a cloud in the sky, it is absolutely awesome!
And that's why I like places like this, it just it takes me back. That's what
traveling does right? It creates memories and it brings back memories from either
places that you've been, whether or not I've been here before, it for whatever
reason it doesn't bring me back there, but it brings me back to working at the
summer camp, and that's one thing that I absolutely love about traveling is that the
memories that you make, and the memories that traveling brings up, always so wonderful!
Hurry up?
Alright.
Small shrimp!
Small what?
Maybe this is lobster.
Can you see small shrimp?
Ah, let me see if I can get a little bot closer.
We can catch if you want to.
I don't know what these are.
No, looks like lobster.
Don't you think so?
Ah?
Yeah, I think so actually.
There we go.
Is he alive?
Yes, of course!
Oh, I'm all blurry.
Oh, there he is.
Nice catch.
Ah! Can't move.
Oh God!
Ok, let's get this one back on.
Moving! Moving!
Moving, Moving!
Oh my goodness.
This is a disaster.
Disaster!
I was trying to move so my shadow wouldn't be in everything.
Cool, I don't know if I've ever seen a snail
or whatever it is, inside an actual shell moving around like that before.
Really?
Yeah.
Why not?
I don't know.
Have you?
Yes.
We do have.
You do have. Excellent.
Ah, man!
That's why people don't wear.
Eww
Oh my goodness.
Well, I guess I have to go back to the water and clean this bad by off.
If you want to see some sea life, check out these little - they're called tide pools - so
check out the little tide pools when the tide goes out, it leaves these little
pools, and that's where everything that's alive...what are you doing?
That's where everything is living, is living until the tide comes back in.
You can definitely see the water line there on the rocks,
and to give you an idea, we're going to go get Akane to stand next to it, and you
can see exactly how high this water gets.
Okay, so there's her...
and...
there is the waterline.
Ok, so we are going to be heading back to the campground right now, we're going to get set up,
and then we're going to see you in about four hours our time, and we're going to
check out the high tides. So make sure you keep watching the video because, you
know, yeah keep watching the video!
Alright, thank you for sticking with me, so it's actually quite a few hours later,
it's about seven o'clock, so high tide is around 8:00pm or just after 8:00pm, but just
to make sure that we had enough light we wanted to come here round 7pm
So we're going to go to two different spots. We're going to go back to where we were walking
on the ocean floor there earlier, so we're going to go check and see what it's
like now, and then afterwards we're going to go check
out where those boats were, and see what the difference is like there.
So we can already tell just the difference from here, so hang on we'll show you.
(Before in box on right)
So, as you can tell, a lot of what was exposed earlier has been completely
covered by water, and you notice it most down by the rocks
there behind me, just how much is already inaccessible that we were
walking on before. So you'd have to walk through the water in order to get there.
So it's just one of those things where this area, especially...so we're not
actually at the Bay of Fundy which has the highest tides, but this area is very
close to that, so it is very much similar. So as you can tell, it is a big
difference between low tide and high tide here.
Okay so I'm not going to lie,
we're at the boats here now, and it didn't go up quite as much as I was
hoping or expecting, but you'll still see a little bit of difference compared to
what it was. The boats were just sitting on the bare sand there before, and well,
this is what it is now.
(Before on the box on the right)
So there is a six hour time span between low tide and high tide, so it's been
about five hours, so there's about an hour of tide time left in order to come
up, so come up a little bit more, another 1/6 of the way or so. So it's going to
actually come up a fair bit from what it is now.
well guys, I think we're going to cut
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Filmed July 2018