Ultimate New Brunswick Adventure

Thirteen nights by hire car around New Brunswick, which is the fullest version the operator sells and is built almost entirely around the Bay of Fundy and its tides.

The Fundy Trail Parkway and Fundy National Park open it, 206 square kilometres of coastal cliff and forest with over a hundred kilometres of trails. Hopewell Rocks follows, and it is the single best demonstration of what these tides do: at low water visitors walk on the sea floor among flowerpot-shaped stacks eroded at the base, and six hours later the same stacks are islands to be paddled around by kayak. The range reaches fourteen metres.

A marine wildlife safari goes out into what is a feeding ground for more than a dozen whale species, including fin and minke. The North Atlantic right whale also uses these waters and is among the most endangered large animals in the world, which gives the trip a certain weight. A sea caves kayak tour follows around Deer Island, through one of the richest marine ecosystems on the coast, past lighthouses and fishing villages with bald eagles, harbour seals and porpoises about.

Caraquet and the Acadian villages close the route, with admission included to the Village Historique Acadien, a living-history recreation of settler life staffed in period. The Acadians were deported by the British in the 1750s and the ones who returned built this coast. Canadian Affair include the flights, the hire car, the hotels and the named tours, with fuel, insurance and meals separate. The price is per person, and no wildlife sighting can be guaranteed.