We’ve heard the sandpipers and plovers are on the tidal flats in New Brunswick along the upper reaches of the Bay of Fundy. Time for some background. June five years ago Wells traveled to New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia to photograph. Traveling the back roads near the Bay of Fundy he spotted a sign mentioning an art gallery way off the beaten path. He heads there to find it was the art gallery of painter Lars Larsen. He passed away more than a decade earlier but his widow continues to run the gallery. It’s filled with mostly prints of Lars. Wells spots a photograph similar to a photograph he had taken in upstate NY. Wells’ photograph is of a huge flock of snow geese. The flock has many thousand of snow geese but it is a slow exposure taken at 1/8 second so the flying snow geese appear as wispy blowing white grass. The photograph at the gallery is a flock of many tens of thousands of sandpipers and plovers flying and the photographer captured the image with a slow shutter speed. Her image speaks to him. The resulting image is similar to Wells’. Afterwards Wells regretted not purchasing the print. Two years ago we stopped at the same gallery on our return from our Newfoundland trip where Wells purchased another image by the same photographer, Sybil Wetzle. It is the first photograph he remembers purchasing.
These shorebirds stop over for about two weeks each August to rest and feed. They are migrating from the Arctic to the Southern Hemisphere. It is a special sight to behold as these birds make their migration of tens of thousands of miles.
Anyway, back to the present. Sybil, now a Facebook friend, lets us know the birds are now at the tidal flats along the Bay of Fundy. We make the decision to travel to the western part of Newfoundland do a bit of exploring and catch the ferry to Nova Scotia where we still hope to see the shorebirds.
We are about 500 miles from the ferry so today is a travel day. We do a few repairs in the trailer and head out. After a while and maybe 300 miles we pull into a campground and are assigned a campsite. We pull into the campsite and right next to us are Harry and Pam, the couple we met at the restaurant in Grand Bank yesterday.
Seeing North America 
The beach we go to in NJ is located at the northern most part of the Shore at Sandy Hook. There are over a hundred Piping Plover nests that are protected from the beach goers every year until this weekend after all the eggs have hatched and the baby birds are big enough to run around on their own. I enjoy them so much seeing those short legs go a mile a minute closer to the surf.
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