New Brunswick

Bay of Fundy, slow

2 days Max 8 Unhurried Coastal & tides, Hiking

ABOUT THIS TRIP

Two days on the world's highest tides with a guide who has watched them her whole life. Eight people, one van, zero rushing.

The tides here move more water twice a day than every river on earth combined, and for six hours of it you can walk on the sea floor. Nancy has watched that happen from the same stretch of shoreline since she was nine.

Two days, eight people, one van. You sleep in Alma, you eat what the boats brought in that morning, and nobody is hurried onto a schedule the water does not keep.

How hard: Gentle — a few hours at a time on mud, cobble and wet rock, at the water’s pace rather than the group’s. If you can manage an uneven beach walk, you can manage this.
Operator: Tidewalk Guiding Co.

THE ECOSCORE

EcoScore Breakdown

4.4

out of 5

Scored on five published criteria.

Transport impact: One van for the whole group, and no internal flights. The drive from Moncton is the only leg with real fuel cost.
Local sourcing: Every meal is bought within twenty minutes of Alma, most of it off the wharf that morning.
Group size: Eight people, capped. The flats can take it; a coach tour cannot.
Community benefit: The guide, the guesthouse and the boat are all locally owned. The van is rented from Moncton.
Operator transparency: Nancy gave us her supplier list and her pricing without being asked twice.

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DAY BY DAY

Itinerary /
What's Included

Down onto the ocean floor

Alma, NB

Meet at noon, walk the flats at low water, eat on the wharf.

Nancy meets the group at the Alma wharf at noon, which on this coast is a flexible promise: the tide sets the schedule, and the tide is different every day. Boots are handed out, the tide chart is read aloud, and then you walk out.

For six hours the sea floor is a country of its own — mudstone ledges, barnacle flats, a forest of kelp still standing upright. Back on the wharf, dinner is whatever the boats landed and nobody sets an alarm.

Stay: Guesthouse, Alma
Meals: Lunch, dinner
Distance: 6 km on foot, 40 min by van

Watching it come back in

Cape Enrage

Follow the coast road and watch yesterday’s path disappear.

Breakfast is early, because the water is already turning. The van runs the coast road to Cape Enrage, where the Fundy tides pile against a lighthouse that has watched them since 1840.

You watch the same flats you walked yesterday vanish under thirty feet of water in about an hour — the plainest demonstration of what this bay does twice a day. Lunch is at the Cape, and the van has you in Moncton by mid-afternoon.

Stay: —
Meals: Breakfast, lunch
Distance: 5 km on foot

What's included

6 things the price covers

Two days of guiding with a licensed local guide
One night in Alma, twin or single room
All meals from lunch on day one to lunch on day two
Transport between every point on the itinerary
Park and site entry fees
Tide charts, and boots if you need them

What's not included

5 things to budget for

Getting to Moncton and back
Travel insurance — bring your own, we will ask to see it
Drinks with dinner
Anything you buy on the wharf
Gratuities, which are genuinely optional here

WHO RUNS IT

EcoCanada
Verified Operator

We listed Tidewalk because Nancy turned down our suggestion to run a second group on the same tide. That is the answer we were hoping for.

Tidewalk Guiding Co.

Alma, New Brunswick · Operating since 2014

Vetted March 2026

Met in person, in Alma
Guide certification and insurance seen and verified
Supplier list reviewed line by line
Group ceiling confirmed in writing

DATES AND PRICES

Booking

October 2026

November 2026

THE FINE PRINT

Payment and
Cancellation Policy

7+ days before your date: full refund
2–6 days before: 50% refund
Within 48 hours or no-show: no refund

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