It was another short drive today so we stopped in Moncton and rode our bikes on one of their trails. This one ran along the Petitcodiac River which is at the north end of the Bay of Fundy. As we reached the end of the trail we realized that the tide had turned and was coming in fast and furious. We could see waves of brown, silty water moving up the river. Within minutes we could tell that the water was rising. As we rode back towards the city, John paced a rapid in the river at 7.2 mph. We found out later that the river is just a few feet wide and only 4-6 feet deep at low tide and over 1 mile wide at high tide and 160 ft. deep. This happens twice a day, every day.
Because low tide was around 7 pm we got a guided tour of the Hopewell Rocks Provincial Park starting at 5 pm. The water was pretty close to the shore line but receding quickly. At the end of the talk, 1.5 hours later, the water’s edge was over 40 yards away. The ‘flower pots’ are rock towers that look like small islands when the tide is in but like pedestals with trees and grass on top when the tide is out. The trees along the shoreline are quite old. One tree, sticking out from the rock at a 90* angle, was 170 years old and had been growing at that angle for over 70 years.
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