FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 2012

Today was an awesome day.  We went to HOPEWELL ROCKS, NEW BRUNSWICK. Today we drove about an hour from Fundy to Hopewell Rocks. The entrance fee was $9.00 for me and $7.75 for Steve.  You can come back the next day if you don’t stay to experience the low and high tides.

  Hopewell Rocks "...are iconic conglomerate stone and red sandstone 'flowerpot' rocks that tower up to 49 ft or more in height at low tide  Once part of the sedimentary rock cliffs formed here millions of years ago, they are slowly erooding.  In fact inthe centuries to come, the surging tides will completely wash the rocks away.  New ones will form behind them, however, and geologists think there's enough conglomerate rock--that's the top layer of stone that wears away less rapidly than the underlying sandstone--to make more flowerpot rocks for about another hundred thousand years."

We arrived at the park at 11:15 am. and went to the restaurant for a coke and coffee.  Surprisingly we found Krisy Kreme donuts too!

Then we walked about a mile or so down to the shore where we were about 1 hour from high tide. It was amazing to see the steps we would later walk down under water.  The tide difference from low to high were 41 feet today!!!

Here are pictures of low and high tide. 

It was fun walking on the ocean floor at low tide.  It was almost difficult to take a picture of the whole "flowerpot."  You might want to google Hopewell Rocks to check it out.

While we were waiting for low tide we walked around the park and went to Demoiselle Beach.  

We were going to kayak around the "flowerpots," however, the wind was very strong.  One of the interpreters told us she had not seen the wind as strong as this day.