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Restaurant, Motel and Gifts
Allan and Keltie Bruce
Exit 14, Hwy. #102
P.O. Box 821
Truro, Nova Scotia
B2N 5G6
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Tel - (902) 893 - 8951
E-mail:
PalliserMotel@eastlink.ca |
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The Dining Room
The Palliser’s pine paneled dining room
offers an unrestricted view of the surrounding countryside, as well as
an excellent view of the Bay of Fundy Tidal Bore as it charges (most
days) up the Salmon River.
Our menu features traditional home style
cooking at it’s best. You may choose from items such as Roast Dressed
Chicken, Poached Salmon, Bay of Fundy Scallops or a selection of Pasta
dishes, Steaks or our famous “Lobster Feed”. A selection of our Nova
Scotia produced wine will add to your dining pleasure. You won’t want to
pass up one of our desserts made in our own bakery. |
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The Gift Shop
The Palliser Gift Shop offers a large
collection of gifts from all over the Maritime Provinces. Our selection
ranges from locally crafted pottery, stained glass, hooked mats,
jewelry, candies, prints, original paintings, pewter items and much
more. Our sweaters, jackets and capes from Great Britain and Ireland are
always popular. We also carry souvenir items and items of interest to
children.
You are welcome to browse to your heart’s
content and we shall look forward to serving you. |
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The
Motel
The Palliser Motel offers the weary
traveler very clean, comfortable, yet modest accommodations at rates
attractive to the budget conscious.
Our beautifully landscaped grounds in a
country setting, adjacent to Route 102,provide a scenic vista, which may
be enjoyed from the comfort of a lawn chair in front of your room.
All rooms are “drive-up” which facilitates
unloading of your vehicle. A short walk to the lawn beside our
restaurant and gift shop enables you to view the Bay of Fundy Tidal Bore
day or night.
The Palliser offers economic accommodations only one hour from Halifax,
Peggy’s Cove or the fine beaches of the Northumberland Straight.
What is a tidal bore?
This is a natural phenomenon, which is
seen in very few parts of the world. The Bay of Fundy is particularly
noted for it’s extremely high tides, the highest in the world, and for
it’s tidal bores.
As is generally known, the rise and fall of ocean tides is caused by
the gravitational “pull” of the moon on the earth’s watery blanket. At
most places along the ocean shores, high tides occur regularly every
12 hours, 25 minutes.
In the open ocean the tide only rises and falls a fraction of a meter.
However, in most V-shaped bays and inlets the tide enters the broad
end and the water literally “piles up” as it moves up the bay. In
certain areas, such as the Bay of Fundy, the natural period of
oscillation is very close to the tidal period and just like water
sloshing back and forth in a bowl, the rise and fall of the tide is
greatly amplified.
Thus, the tidewater enters the bay at its widest point, and as it
passes along toward the head of the bay, it is in effect squeezed by
the ever narrowing and by the constant “shallowing” of the bottom.
At the very head of the bay this advancing tide becomes a wave varying
from just a ripple to several feet in height, and this wave continues
into and up the rivers, which empty into the bay. This wave is
referred to as the “Tidal Bore”. Thus, we have the phenomenon of the
river changing its flow before your very eyes, created by the tidal
wave, or bore, flowing in OVER the outgoing river water.
The height of the tidal bore increases
with the range of the tide. The range of the tide varies with the
phases of the moon, the distance of the moon and other factors.
This wonder of nature…. may be seen, day or night, from the grounds of
the Palliser. We offer a free parking
area near highway 102, just outside Truro. As noted, the actual bore
may vary in height from just a ripple to several feet. The important
factor is the tremendous inrush of water and the extremely rapid rise
in the water level immediately following arrival of the bore. In fact,
high tide at the Truro viewing site is reached in just over one hour
from arrival of the bore.
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