Wallking on the Ocean Floor to East Quoddy Lighthouse - Campobello Island, New Brunswick [Bay of Fundy]

At the far end of Campobello Island is a scenic lighthouse that locals say is the second most photographed lighthouse in the world.  The only trick is, you can only get there from land during the hours around low tide when the dramatic Bay of Fundy tides drain the water away from around the island where the lighthouse sits.

So here is how you get to the Harbor Head Lightstation also known as the East Quoddy Lighthouse:

Tide is in.  Note the stairway/ladder on the far side.

1. You go down a rusted iron ladder/staircase
2. You walk across the dry ocean floor, winding between rocks covered with seaweed and then across the pebbly dry ocean floor.
3. You climb up another rusted iron ladder/staircase.
THEN
4. You walk along the top of a small wooded island.
5. You walk across a wooden bridge over another dry area of the sea floor to the second island.

Same shot low tide.  Note the stairway/ladder on the far side.

6. You walk along the top of this the second small wooded island.
WAIT, WE AREN'T DONE YET!!!
7. You go down another rusted iron ladder/staircase.
8. You walk across a rocky seaweed covered dry ocean floor.
9. You climb up the last rusted iron ladder/staircase to the third island.
YOU HAVE ARRIVED!

Can I just say that the lighthouse is truly gorgeous, and the view from it is spectacular.  It was well worth the adventure to get there.  [OK, we admit, the adventure to get there was pretty fun, too]

First Ocean Bottom Crossing Point

The lighthouse was built in 1829 to protect fishermen and trading vessels that traveled between the coast of nearby Maine and Campobello Island.  It is a white wood, tapered octagonal structure about 51 feet high.  Sometime in its history it was painted with the distinctive red cross so that mariners could distinguish it during the day from the snow that accumulates there during the winter.

Second Ocean Bottom Crossing Point

Words to the wise!

The light is a continuous red beacon.