Mud, Mud, Glorious Mud! Students Get Dirty for the Bay of Fundy – October 2011
The students of Acadia University, Nova Scotia are going all out for Canada. They were the winners of a recent competition to encourage people to get voting for the Bay of Fundy, Canada’s only finalist in the New7Wonders of Nature campaign. Students showed their support by plastering themselves in the trademark red mud and forming the number 7, seizing victory in this Canada wide competition.
The beautiful Bay of Fundy is a 170 mile long ocean bay which stretches between the Atlantic Canada provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. With four UNESCO designated sites, the bay is famous for having the highest tides in the world. 100 billion tonnes of seawater flow into the Bay of Fundy twice a day; more than the combined flow of the world’s freshwater rivers.
The area is a “must-see” for visitors who can enjoy bird-watching, hiking the Fundy trail, tidal bore rafting, kayaking and whale watching, (there are up to 12 different species of whale) in this unique environment. Towering red sandstones rise like sentinels above the ocean. Once the tides have retreated there’s something very special about walking on the ocean bed that millions of years ago was home to the world’s oldest reptiles and Canada’s oldest dinosaurs.
The New7Wonders of Nature contest closes on 11th November 2011 so there is still time to vote for this stunning phenomenon of nature – visit www.votemyfundy.com.