Fundy tides...by Twy's travels

('Thankful too'...the name on the boat in the town of Alma 

- they have to get propped up twice a day to keep from tipping 

when the tides go out)

(Seaweed walls on flower pots)

(Big walls of sandstone that the water came up to during high tide 

- lots of danger)

(Caves...the forming of new flower pots due to the erosion of .6 m each year)

(A family photo at Hopewell rocks!)

(Can you spot the Girl in the walls of seaweed?)

(High tide...see the kayakers floating thru the flowerpots)

A few photos from our day of adventures at Bay of Fundy...went to Hopewell Rocks in the morning for high-tide (see last photo above).  Then drove to Fundy National park for a 4.5 km hike along the shore and lunch by a covered bridge.  Visited the Hopewell rocks again for low-tide walking on the ocean floor (remaining pictures above).  Had fun playing with seaweed, mud and plunking rocks into it.  Learned at the interpretive centre about the pulls of the moon and sun on the tides and why this place boasts the largest changes in the world.  Amazing learning for us all.

I think the part that interested me the most was the amount of birds that migrate through this bay from the Arctic, eat their fill of shrimp in the mud flats, before heading around the world - some as far as 4,300 kms to South America without stopping their wings to rest as it's over water. Incredible!