On Wednesday 1 August we said our goodbyes to Ardyth and family and prepared to leave Nova Scotia. However, it still took us almost two hours to get out of the backyard. The gate was a narrow one and at an angle to the house, and neither of our vehicles could negotiate the turn. So, after considerable turning, backing, discussion and speculation, not to mention prayer, we finally got our "early start" close to noon!We stopped a few miles down the road to visit Gaspereau Vineyards and Winery, the only one we've been to on our trip. It was a lovely tour with lots of explanation of the relatively new industry in Nova Scotia. 
After our picnic on their grounds, we drove to New Brunswick's Hopewell Rocks, a provincial park which boasts large surf-carved land masses in the Bay of Fundy, where the tides rise and fall over 40 feet twice daily. Their motto, "Where you can walk on the ocean floor!" attracts thousands annually to see this wonderful natural phenomenon. 
From the main level one descends to the ocean floor via this staircase. The Fundy coast lives by the tidetables and they're posted almost everywhere. 
You're allowed on the "beach" 
from 3 hours before until 3 hours after every low tide, a six-hour window twice daily. The rest of the time you watch the tide come in and fill up the area where you were walking only a short time before.
Some of the formations are lovely arches; others are the "Flower Pots"
seen here, 
tall sandstone structures with flowers and trees "stuck" on top.
These lovely flowers grow on the edge of the cliffs, where we waited for high-tide, which dutifully returned right on schedule.
The view from the foot of the descending staircase shown earlier: 
Our last view of Hopewell Rocks now at high tide, before returning to our campsite: 
Wish you were here!
After our picnic on their grounds, we drove to New Brunswick's Hopewell Rocks, a provincial park which boasts large surf-carved land masses in the Bay of Fundy, where the tides rise and fall over 40 feet twice daily. Their motto, "Where you can walk on the ocean floor!" attracts thousands annually to see this wonderful natural phenomenon. 
From the main level one descends to the ocean floor via this staircase. The Fundy coast lives by the tidetables and they're posted almost everywhere. 
You're allowed on the "beach" 
from 3 hours before until 3 hours after every low tide, a six-hour window twice daily. The rest of the time you watch the tide come in and fill up the area where you were walking only a short time before.
Some of the formations are lovely arches; others are the "Flower Pots"
seen here, 
tall sandstone structures with flowers and trees "stuck" on top.
These lovely flowers grow on the edge of the cliffs, where we waited for high-tide, which dutifully returned right on schedule.
The view from the foot of the descending staircase shown earlier: 
Our last view of Hopewell Rocks now at high tide, before returning to our campsite: 
Wish you were here!Rog and Meg, Jon and Geri
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