Hopewell Rocks "rocks"!

After we got to our campsite at Fundy National Park on Wednesday, it was such a beautiful day that we decided to drive to Hopewell Rocks Provincial Park to see the views there of the Bay of Fundy -- at low tide...

Visitor map

The tide table for Wednesday indicated that low tide would be at 2:40pm, and the next high tide at 8:42pm.

It was about 1/2 mile walk from where we parked/entered down to "Staircase Cove" where we could access the "ocean floor".

Our first view of folks walking down on the "ocean floor" around the "Flower Pots"

The park touts that you can walk on the "ocean floor", and while, technically this might be the case, it is the same as at any other place when the tide goes out at a beach on the ocean - the exposed beach could be called the "ocean floor". However, a lot *more* shore is exposed by the low tide here.

At the bottom of the staircase looking out at the Flower Pots

Looking out across the finger of the Bay of Fundy at this point.

Flower Pot rocks

Some intrepid souls who decided to walk out in the really soft mud - they were about up to their knees.

More rock formations up the beach

Selfie back at Flower Pot Rocks

"Lovers Arch"

Another picture as we were leaving... the tide was starting to come in.

We went back to the rig, and returned about 18 hours later, on Thursday morning, for high tide...

The same perspective, this time at high tide.

We walked down the stairs as far as they would let us go -- you can see that water is up to the bottom steps of the staircase.

Kayakers came through while we were there, kayaking over the area where we had walked on Wednesday afternoon.

Tide chart for Thursday, high tide at 9:13am

I created a video with some of the still pictures and some of the videos that Carl took at Hopewell Rocks. You can see it here:  https://youtu.be/o8sX3lkC8MU The video includes an explanation by one of the rangers on why the tides are so high here.

Hopewell Rocks is a great place to get a view of how significant the tidal change is here at the Bay of Fundy.