Thanks, Linda, for bringing this excellent shelling locality to the
list's attention.  The Bay of Fundy is home to the highest (and hence
lowest!) tides in the world - at Burncoat Head, which is one of my
favorite places to hunt for New Scottish inter and sub-tidal spp, the
tidal range reaches 16.8 meters (54.6 ft), which means that a couple of
times per year, the sea bottom itself is exposed nicely!  One can
sometimes find things like Epitonium greenlandicum, for example, and
some Buccinids and Trochids.  There is also a great colony of Barnea
truncata, and the northernost Zirfea crispata are found here.  A word of
caution, however: when the water starts rising in ernest, DON'T fool
around trying to capture that one last super-orange, frilly Nucella
lapillus - head for the shore POST HASTE: there are some channels that
separate the main mud flats from the shore proper, and believe me, even
when the water in those channels is only up to your knees, the current
is more powerful than one would normally be comfortable with......//
The outer Bay of Fundy, on the western side of Cape Splitz (which is
DEFINITELY worth the hike, by the way!!!), is a splendid place to look
for chitons - the rocks on the western side of the pier at Granville
Beach (where the fishing boats are literally stranded at low tide -
quite something to see in itself!!) are home to Tonicella marmoreus, T.
ruber and Ischnochiton alba, as well as Margarites helicinus, which can
be found up to mid-tide.  The major drawback of shelling the Bay of
Fundy is that the super-low tides one needs to reach "the GOOD stuff",
occur only a few times a year - twice in the spring (one of the best
recipies for icicle-hands i've ever found!!), sometimes for a couple of
days in August, and occasionally in November.  So, if you are coming up
here, check your tide charts carefully, take daylight saving into
account, and be sure to arrive at your shelling site at least an hour
before low tide: once it turns, it covers a good portion of those 54
feet surprisingly quickly!!

From the delightful, not wet at the moment North,
ross m.
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