þÿGreetings from Canada:

Grand Manan Island sits at the entrance to Canada's Bay of Fundy.  It is 16 miles wide and 7 miles wide.  3000 people live on Grand Manan. American Colonists loyal to the English Crown founded it. Now that's all the stuff out of the guide books.

What I can tell you is that the tides are very high here-as much as 30 feet from low water to high water.  Imagine, a three-story high tide!  Where does all of that water come from? 

Because the tides bring lots of food that fish love, the main industry is-you guessed it fishing.  A local lobsterman, Fred Green, befriended us and drove us around the island.  It is a most beautiful place.  Neat homes, lots of churches, wildflowers and a beautiful harbor overlooking the Bay of Fundy.

The tides also make aquaculture an important industry here.  The grow Atlantic Salmon in huge wire "tanks" in the harbor.  As the wild fish have been fished out, aquaculture ( called "fish farming" sometimes) has grown along this coast.  At Cutler, Jasper Cates told us they had just sent 1 million pounds of Salmon, grown in their "tanks", to market. They grow about 30,000 fish in each tank.  Not all of them survive, but enough do to make it a good business.

Pretty nice day but it can get wild with weather here.  Fog and storms and strong currents caused by the tides have wrecked 300 boats in the last couple of centuries.  Scary.

The people are very nice, especially Fred who took time to drive us around on a Sunday.  Time to go now. Here are the pictures as promised-

Your Friend,

Gary