CANADA DAY JULY 1

HAPPY CANADA DAY EVERYONE from the Hopewell Rocks in Hopewell Cove NB. The pictures in the travel books and magazine definitely do not do justice to this place.

We arrived shortly before low tide and was able to walk on the lowest part of the ocean floor that is dry at low tide. It is hard to imagine that in a few hours the water would be 40++ feet over our heads. The highest tide recorded here is 46 feet and the highest ever recorded anywhere in the world is a few hundred yards up the cove at 56 1/2 feet. The mud flats that are visible at low tide are over a kilometer (.6mi) wide and they stretch several kms along the bay. The flats are home to mud shrimp, they are about the size of a grain of rice and we were told that there are 60-70,000 of them per square foot. The birds do get a feast at low tide .We walked the entire length of the beach and again marvelled at what a beautiful world God has given us.
When the tide comes back in it is like a wave and rises a foot every 4-5 minutes. If a person gets trapped on the beach your only choice is to climb up on a rock and wait about 3 hours or so for the water level to drop. At high tide, of course most everything is covered with water except the top of the rocks.
Continuing east tomorrow with a stop in Moncton NB then on to Nova Scotia.