Guarding the entrance to the Bay of Fundy, the island's cool spruce forests, rocky headlands, ferry rides, outlying islands, marshes, ponds and narrow, little-traveled lanes combine to produce some of the most delightful days we've ever spent in the field. For us early fall is the best season at Grand Manan. Clear days and cool nights are the rule, fall wildflowers are superb, whales gather in numbers around the island and migrant birds can be numerous. Our headquarters will be Shorecrest Lodge, a simple but most congenial place and well suited to our needs.
Meals are a treat here with plenty of local seafood.
It's about a 90-minute drive to Black's Harbour and the ferry to North Head. Night in North Head. Our days on Grand Manan will be a combination of land excursions to the four corners of the island interspersed with at least two boat trips to offshore islands and undersea ledges where seabirds and whales gather. Greater, Sooty and Manx Shearwaters, Atlantic Puffin and Razorbill are highly likely and if schools of herring are present the numbers of birds may be staggering. Cetaceans may be equally numerous and we could see six or seven species including the very rare Northern Right Whale.