PassPorter.com Feature Article Original article at: http://www.passporter.com/articles/bay-of-fundy-7wonders.html Vote for Canada's Bay of Fundy: Help Make Canada's Bay of Fundy One of The Seven Wonders of Natureby Dave Marx, PassPorter Guidebooks AuthorLast modified 11-05-2011 Time is ticking away on balloting for the New Seven Wonders of Nature! 28 finalists from every continent but Antarctica are vying to be among the magnificent seven (penguins haven't figured out how to cast votes on the internet or via text message, it seems). One of those 28, the Bay of Fundy, was a key focus of my recent research trip to Saint John, New Brunswick and Halifax, Nova Scotia in advance of the Disney Magic's visits in the summer of 2012 (I love researching new ports of call for PassPorter's Disney Cruise Line guidebook!) With November 11, 2011 (11/11/11) the final deadline for balloting, Fundy-area boosters have been encouraging one and all to cast their ballots for their bay, and after experiencing it myself, it sure has one of my seven votes! The Bay of Fundy is home to the world's greatest tides. At the bay's farthest reaches, the tide rises and falls over 50 feet/15.4 meters, twice daily (the world-wide average tide is 2 feet/0.6 meters). Have you seen photos of fishing boats resting on mud flats, the wood pilings of a wharf towering above the poor, little craft? Sure you did, right at the start of this article! That's Fundy, but not the entire "Fundy Experience" by any stretch. These surging tides create a wide range of experiences; a river rapids that reverses direction, sea caves that are alternately inundated and explorable on foot within a matter of hours, the red clay bottom of tidal flats that extend to the horizon, river beds that empty to a trickle and others where whitewater rafters ride the incoming tidal bore... The tides also bring a phenomenal assortment of birds, marine mammals, and other sea life, who thrive on the rush of nutrients that ride in with the tides and feast upon the morsels stranded when the tide recedes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXMu5HstfCM&feature=relmfu
Here, Canadian broadcast humorist Rick Mercer does his bit for the cause at Saint John, New Brunswick's Reversing Falls
Visit http://www.new7wonders.com to cast your ballot for up to seven Wonders.
If you'd rather vote just for the Bay of Fundy, you can visit http://http://www.votemyfundy.com both to vote and to see more of the wondrous bay. And if you still don't believe me, here are a couple of more photos: Low Tide in St. Martins on the Bay of Fundy and The Tide is Rising in St. Martins on the Bay of Fundy
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