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7/13/2018
Hopewell Rocks Motel
Hopewell, NB, Canada
If you ever come up this way to take in the Bay of Fundy and environs, the Hopewell Rocks Motel is the place to stay. Or at least it seemed so after living in a shoebox in the back of a truck for the last 4 day. (->
The motel is in the middle of the Fundy National Park and run by an attractive young woman with more visible tattoos and body piercing than I have ever seen that close up. Nice lady but hard not to stare. Some of them I suspect could have lead to some interesting conversation if I just asked "what inspired that one….." (-:
The beds were roomy and just the right firmness, the shower was powerful and hot, the tv got 4 channels and the cafe next door served excellent food. The only thing it lacked was a 'for public use' washer and dryer. I need some clean skivvies, so the washer and dryer will be a requirement for tonight's stop. (-:
We timed the Bay of Fundy Park visit just right as far as time of year, moon phase and weather. The Bay has the largest tide in the entire world 32' to 48' from high to low tide with NO slack tide. Hopewell Rocks are a location at which at low tide you can literally walk on the ocean floor. Which we did fo4r about two hours until you could see the water advancing towards shore at about 1 foot per minute across the floor and 1 foot depth every 15 mins. Pretty kool to watch.
After the 'walk on the floor' we went up to the Park restaurant ate some Canadian famous Poutine to wait for the high tide walking tour. FYI Poutine is a fancy Canadian word for French fries, cubed white cheese with beef gravy poured over them. No catsup necessary.
The high tide walking tour was well worth it. 1 ½ hour of walking the Fundy coastal trail looking down on where just a couple of hours ago we were walking on the bottom which was now covered in 42 feet of water.
Of all the places we visited in Canada, for me, the Bay of Fundy was by far the most impressive. Like - the amount of water that is moved into and out of the Bay in ONE (1) tide cycle is equivalent to 635 days of the water flow over Niagara Fall. Pretty impressive. (-:
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