Kings Landing

Visited Kings Landing Historical Settlement a while ago. It's like a living museum in the form of a town with about 70 buildings. My favorite was the fully functional, water powered saw mill.

Powered Paraglider

After the balloon launch in the last post there was a Powered Paraglider demonstration. A paraglider is basically a large parachute, but can glide for a longer time then a parachute. A powered paraglider is a paraglider with a big fan strapped on the rider's back. This looked like a lot of fun. I've been parachuting a few times and thoroughly enjoyed it once the parachute opened and everything was alright, but the few seconds before that was a bit scary. I can feel my heart rate climb just thinking about it. Seriously, it's climbing as I type this. Paragliding seems like it'd be much more enjoyable for me, and you don't need a plane, 'cause you can start from the ground. I bet you could get some great pictures up there too!

Balloon Fiesta

Fundy (Part 3)

One more low and high tide shot.


There was a nice cool breeze most of the time.

Most of the coast line is pretty rough.

Fundy (Part 2)

Here's some more photos of the tide. I didn't do a very good job of making sure I was standing the same place when taking the low and high photos.

The guy with the white boat below not only has to time his coming and going with the water below him, but also with the bridge (visible in the last two photos) above him.



Click the photos below for larger versions.

Fundy (Part 1)

It's been pretty hot and humid here for a while, so for some relief we headed to the coast for some cool Atlantic Ocean breeze, specifically, Fundy National Park on the Bay of Fundy.

As you can see on the sign below, this area boasts the highest tides in the world. The official vertical measurement is 15 meters (50 feet).


Everyday 100 billion tonnes of water flow in and out of the Bay of Fundy... twice! That's more than the combined flow of all the freshwater rivers in the world. I took these pictures of this bridge at low and high tide and stuck them togeter. The hight of the tide varies throughout the bay, here it's only 10 meters (33 feet).


While the vertical hight is 15 meters (50 feet) the horizontal affect can expose kilometers (miles) of sea floor. In the photo below, everything gets covered in water, aside from the cliffs.

(Click for a larger view)

At the Lake

Did some camping a week or two ago by a lake, here it is. First at late afternoon then again at about 10:30pm.

Happy Canada Day!

Better late than never.

Bridges (Part 4)

Here are two more covered bridges. These are still in use.

Bridges (Part 3)

Here are some more photos of the bridge from last time.

Bridges (Part 2)

One of the things New Brunswick is known for is its covered bridges, including the world's longest covered bridge in Hartland (I don't have a picture of this one yet).

There used to be over 300 covered bridges, but there's only about 65 left. Many have been replaced by modern bridges and turned into little parks as is the case with this one.

More Info:
Wikipedia Entry for covered bridges
New Brunswick Covered Bridges

Bridges (Part 1)

I'm starting a bridge series today.

These were found not far from the waterfall in my last post. I should have taken note of the date these were built, but I did not.

Windmills

Last year about 35 windmills were built near the city where I live. They're spread over a very large area, it was hard to get more then 5 in the frame at the same time. The towers are 80m (262 feet) high and each blade is 45m (148 feet) long. When I was there, they would do one rotation ever 3.6 seconds so that means the tips were moving at 283 km/h (176 mph). The blades moving through the air sounds like a jet plane, but not as loud.