This post is one of two about a road trip through amazing fall colors to the eastern border of Maine and Canada. Where the Gulf of Maine meets the Bay of Fundy and Nova Scotia is a stone’s throw away.
The spot that marks the highest ocean tides in the world, twice a day! One can only walk the rocky beaches during low tide as 40 feet (12 m) to 53 feet (16 m) and 100 billion tons of seawater is rushing toward you in a new high tide cycle.
Lubec, Maine, is the easternmost municipality in the contiguous U.S. and is the country’s closest continental location to Africa. We stayed in a repurposed Coast Guard facility near the Quoddy Head State Park. The park is known for a delightful candy-striped lighthouse at the point of a half-moon bay that stretches 97 miles (156 km).
We obviously visited the park during low tide to collect rocks on the beach. Pretty cool place!
