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Brier Island
Brier Island has become famous
for its whale- and seabird-watching tours, and the land is an environmental treasure that
offers spectacular panoramas of rocky headlands and tide-carved coastline. It takes two
ferries to reach Brier Island. The second ferry leaves Freeport, on Long Island, to bring
you to Westport, on Brier Island.
Having arrived at Westport we drove out to the Grand Passage Light, had
lunch in Westport then it was off on our whale watching cruise. The staff warned us it
would be rough in case we knew we get sea sick but we were not daunted. We were out for
1.5 hours and I had despaired of seeing whales. By then we where out in the middle of the
Bay of Fundy where we found some whales. There were many minke whales (small with no blow)
and a couple of fin whales (second largest). We video taped both the minke and the fin
whales. The fin whales are magnificent creatures that moved so majesticly and gracefully.
Sometimes they were so close to the boat we could nearly touch them.
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The crew gave us lots of info about whales and generally kept us informed about what we were looking at. The seas were terribly rough and probably 1/3 of the 30 people on board were sick. We were spared. At about 3:45 PM we headed back into shore but the crew spotted two humpback whales so we slowed to see them. At this point we had retired the video camera and had switched to the digital. Below are some of the photos. It was nearly 5:30 PM when we finally got back to shore, nearly an hour later than scheduled. It was wonderful that the crew cared more about us seeing as much as possible than keeping to their schedule.
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After the whale watching
cruise we drive back to Digby for a scallop dinner.
After dinner we reviewed the video and pictures of our long, grand day out.
