Hopewell Cape

This is the light at the Cape Jourimain National Wildlife Area  on the New Brunswick side of the bridge. We stopped at the New Brunswick Welcome Center and the agent gave us a map for our route through Moncton to our destination of Hopewell Cape. The Ponderosa Pines campground is very close to The Rocks Provincial Park where we wanted to view the rise and fall of the Bay of Fundy tide.

This is looking down from the top of the stairs at the rock called Flower Pot. The beach is red sand, almost like Georgia clay, and the water is almost the same color. Those are real people on the beach. The time is right at 11:30 about an hour before dead low tide. Susan and I walked down to the beach and unfortunately brought Shadow with us. Oh, he had a ball running around the beach and playing in the mud but he was skittish about walking up the stairs so I carried him and I wound up covered in red mud. At the upper landing there were water hoses to wash off your shoes so I was able to give Shadow a spritz bath and wound up getting wet in addition to the mud.

This is the same Flower pot in the evening about two before high tide. The stairs have been closed and the beach is completely covered with the water is way up the side of the cliff. I'm estimating the tide is 35 feet at that time and don't know the final number.

We stayed in the park two nights and a funny thing happened while there. On the back of our RV there is a large Gator (UF) decal. The next day here comes a truck pulling an Airstream trailer with the same decal on its window and parks right next to us. They were from Tampa and naturally we had to talk a little Gator smack.