The Bay of Fundy from the New Brunswick Side

I had been hoping to have "Susan's Compleat Bay of Fundy" experience.

We crossed back to New Brunswick and headed down to see the

Hopewell Rocks.  I secured a campsite, good for only one night, and 

got exactly what I had hoped for.  Right on the bay with rising and

receding waters.  So we headed out to make it a day to remember.

The Hopewell Rocks park was just a jaunt down the road.  We bought 

our tickets and set out to enjoy walking on ocean floor.

This was our first view of some of the rocks - also called the

flower pot rocks because of the stuff growing on top of them.

These are not small rocks... 

The exact same view 6 hours later at high tide.

But I digress.  Back to our experience.

The stairs down to the ocean floor.  

The average rise of the tide is 39 ft.  It rises and falls approximately every 6 hours.

The rise on this day was 41.5 ft.

Of course, each rock has a name.  That's  the Lover's Arch

and the almost hidden Bear Rock behind.  The ears...

Coming down the stairs we began to realize how big the Hopewell's are.

There's the bear.

Finn was welcome here and there were lots of dogs in attendance.

We wandered around the parts that were not wet.  

The floor of this place is not sand - it's mud.  Brown mud.

gooey, slippery, dirty mud full of sand.

Lots of people doing what we were doing.

That's E.T. rock.

 Ed decided to give his black fly bitten arms and legs a mud bath so

went down to the water.  He said it was like quicksand.

We spent the afternoon touring the area and visiting the shops.

We were completely taken by the work of this artist.  She lives and

works in this studio.  Her pots are thrown and then embellished with flowers,

animals, children and whatever moves her when she's creating.

We admired a large bowl...$800.

We had to stop at Momma T's Ice Cream Shop.  How could we not?!?

My blueberry was de-lish.

Six hours later at the top of the stairs there's little left of the Lover's Arch

and the bear is treading water.

 The water had already receded about a foot.

The rangers told us it moves at 1 foot every 6 minutes.

What's amazing is that it happens every 6 hours, 2 high and lows each day!

We're moving on today and will spend some time down the road in a little

town called Alma.  We keep getting told about the bakery there that makes

the most amazing sticky buns...