Hopewell Rocks

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Further-on down the road from the train museum, we vis­ited the Hopewell Rocks. This was a great diver­sion from the road. We are, of course, trav­el­ling along the Bay of Fundy, where the tides are the high­est in the world. The Hopewell Rocks are an area where water has eroded the cliffs into huge, bal­anc­ing stat­ues. We had picked up a tides sched­ule a few days ago, so we knew when the tide would be out, so we could walk among them – lit­er­ally on what is ocean floor half the time. This first shot is look­ing down on ‘Daniel Flats’, where the tide was still on its way out!

These are some of the rocks, also known as the Flow­er­pots.

There are a few employ­ees wan­der­ing around, talk­ing to the tourists, and answer­ing ques­tions. We chit-chatted with Kevin, who had built some inuk­shuks out of stones. Appar­ently he and another employee have lit­tle friendly com­pe­ti­tions with these bal­anc­ing stone stacks, try­ing to one-up each other. Of course every time the tide comes in, it knocks them down and they build them back up in a dif­fer­ent way.

And, Brian had brought his tri­pod along so we were able to set up a por­trait of us, from fur­ther away than arms-length!