Carboniferous

The east coast of Canada has some of the best fossil sites in the world. Joggins Cliffs on the bay of Fundy are yet another example. The cliffs cover the entire period. They include both land and sea fossils, both plant and animal and the fossils are well preserved. The cliffs are gradually crumbling as the tremendous tides pound them, revealing new fossils all the time.

I continued around the coast and took pictures at high tide and 35 minutes earlier of the same spot.

The entire coast has fossils from different times. The Age of Sail museum is located at another important fossil site, but they don’t even mention the fossils. Their story is of a sawmill and ship works that has produced some of the largest sailing ships made in Canada. Legend says that a prince of Orkney sailed to the other side of Nova Scotia in the early 1300s with an Italian who left him behind. He crossed the island and built a Viking style ship here. There is some supporting archeology, if you believe the tale.

Further around the bay is the Bay of Fundy fossil interpretation centre, near some dinosaur footprints and other fossils, which were submerged.