Exciting adventures around the 18m tidal range in the Bay of Fundy

The province of New Brunswick on Canada's east coast was once named after the Guelph royal house (Brunswick), but has been shaped by immigrants from all over the world. Today, New Brunswick is the only officially bilingual province in Canada, where both English and French are spoken. New Brunswick and the Bay of Fundy reveal a very different Canada, with endearing and sometimes quirky inhabitants and a spectacular bay that is one of the seven natural wonders of North America. This documentary brings together the most amazing stories across all four seasons.

Canada as you've never seen it before. New Brunswick is a region of extremes. The Bay of Fundy has the highest tidal range in the world. Here, the 18-meter-deep ocean actually dries up twice a day. The whimsical title of the annual ten-kilometer race on the ocean floor, in which participants have good reason to reach the finish line on time, is then also called "Just like Moses" (as Moses once did). For safety's sake, however, there are also divers as course marshals.

The constant rise and fall of the sea water regularly washes spectacular finds from the earth's early history out of the cliffs, fossils up to 300 million years old.

Even though the coast of New Brunswick is rocky, wine is grown here on a grand scale. Not least an ice wine particularly appreciated by gourmets. The grapes are harvested after the first heavy snowfalls of winter, but have received sufficient sunshine during the warm summer months.

The land is sparsely populated, and the people here are of a very special breed. In the fall, you can paddle around in pumpkins at high tide in the place where the race was held in the summer. The largest pumpkins in the world, weighing up to 500 kilograms, grow here. Hollowed out and colorfully painted, they serve as a racing boat in the big "Pumpkin Race". Up to four people squeeze into a pumpkin and hope not to capsize. Not so easy.

One of the many inhabited islands is completely surrounded by U.S. territory. If you want to shop, you have to go through customs twice, but the import and export of fresh fruit and vegetables is prohibited.

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