Hopewell Rocks, New Brunswick

A sic hour drive brought us to Fundy National Park where we stayed for two days. The park is beautiful, green, and plenty of trees unlike a lot of the private campsites that try to crowd in as many RVs into a space as possible.

The main reason to visit Fundy Park was to visit the Hopewell Rocks. The whole Fundy region has the biggest tides in the world rising to as high as 50 feet at times. The Hopewell Rocks are the result of glacial and ice age geological effects. The huge tidal changes in the area have carved and separated these rocks from the cliff faces. These are also referred to as flower pot rocks because of the vegetation that grows on the top of the rocks. The high tides wash away any growth in the lower parts of the rocks.

We went at low tide in the morning - we went down 98 steps to the ocean floor and walked around the rocks. John was frustrated that he could not photograph the formations without people milling around. I thought that provided a good perspective to the size of the rocks.

We then went back at high tide - now we had to watch from the observation deck as the entire beach area was now under water.

The tall one to the right looks like a standing bear1

The neck narrows as it gets eroded and finally breaks away

Many of the low lying rocks get covered in kelp

At high tide: you can see the kayaks down where we walked earlier in the day

New moon was two days away and the tides were higher than usual. Here it has come up 40 ft.










Chalk this down to another wonderful experience.