Saturday, June 14, 2008

Scenic Hopewell Rocks

This morning we were sitting on the couch and felt like doing a little day-trippin...so Ray hopped on the ol' computer and found a place called Hopewell Rocks that's about a 45 minute drive from home. Ancient geology and powerful tides created the backdrop of the picture above. Behind the rock formation is the Bay of Fundy, one of the Marine Wonders of the World (or so we were told). The Bay of Fundy sports tides the height of 4-story buildings and a coastline filled with these huge rock formations. We are literally standing on the ocean floor in this picture...pretty cool, eh!?!

This is an uplifting little piece of information prior to walking down to the ocean floor. If you look closely, it says "To avoid being trapped by the riding tide YOU MUST return to the stairs by the time shown here." Luckily we were there at 1:27 and had plenty of time to explore. Certainly worth synchronizing your watches to...I'm thinking the 4-story tides could prove to be quite the treacherous swim.

1 comment:

Stephanie said...

That is just beautiful and somewhat scary. I almost would have wanted to see it at 8pm to take a picture (after the tide cam in).