From Hopewell Rocks we travelled south along Fundy’s attractive shoreline of bays and marshlands teeming with birds to the evocatively named Cape Enrage. This headland -with its imposing lighthouse still in use - has become the soft adventure centre of the Bay of Fundy. Here you can rock climb on the cliffs, rappel down to the shore (at low tide only of course!) and enjoy the latest attraction: zip lining from the forest canopy over the cliffs to a tower built beside the lighthouse. It makes for a unique and exhilarating view over the Bay of Fundy. And then enjoy a cream tea in the delightful onsite restaurant.
A few kilometers further down the coast is a gem of a National Park: the appropriately named Fundy National Park. We followed the coastal road as far as it goes into the park to a picturesque covered bridge. We then hiked the short Shiphaven Trail and on down to Point Wolfe Beach to contemplate the inrushing tide. Between us and the next coastal road to the south there is no development, no road at all, nothing but the Fundy Footpath linking to the Fundy Trail. It’s the biggest wilderness gap on the Eastern Seaboard south of Labrador. On our return we hiked down to Herring Cove which we had totally to ourselves as the Fundy tides reached their peak. What a place! www.capeenrage.ca and www.parkscanada.gc.ca/fundy
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