Glimpses of Grand Manan

Posts from a herring fish trap at Grand Manan.

Brown fucoid seaweed covering the shore at Anchorage Provincial Park on Grand Manan

Sign for the Swallow Tail Lighthouse on Grand Manan

View of the footbridge to Swallow Tail Lighthouse on Grand Manan

House decorated with fishing floats on Grand Manan

Mile post near the Swallow Tail Lighthouse on Grand Manan.

Buttercups and iris in a meadow on Grand Manan

Boardwalk through the trees at Anchorage Provincial Park on Grand Manan

Display of flotsam fishing floats on Grand Manan

Close-up of Red point rock on Grand Manan

Rock outcrops at Red Point in Anchorage Provincial Park on Grand Manan

Jagged rocks at Pettes Cove on Grand Manan

Grand Manan is a charming island off the coast of New Brunswick in the Bay of Fundy, Canada. This is a selection of images giving my impressions of what the island is like, from a fascinating visit there almost a year ago to the day. I have already posted several articles on the the geology of the island and the old abandoned herring smoke houses – but this, the first of two picture galleries, gives more of an overview.

So here is a glimpse of some of the delights of the island with, first of all, views of North Head Harbour, Pettes Cove, Swallow Tail Lighthouse, Anchorage Provincial Park, and Red Point: showing jagged rocks in beach outcrops and cliffs; pebbles on the shore; ferns and wild flowers in roadside meadows; and evidence for the island’s maritime and fishing history – with an abundance of brightly coloured fishing floats decorating quaint wooden houses, and spindly stakes emerging from the sea where disused herring fishing-traps lie underwater.

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