Day 110
Early this morning, I worked tirelessly on preparing a travel itinerary that would take us to the Fundy National Park, and then down the coast to St Martin’s, hitting all the hot tourist locations as we went. The entire travel time would be a four hour round trip, excluding the time we spent exploring each location. Proud of my accomplishment and eager to show Lori my phone with all the destinations flagged on iMaps. Immediately, Lori noted we need to see the Hopewell Rocks. Not sure where this was, I entered it into the phone only to discover it was a three hour trip to the rocks alone… cue the music.. Wah Wah Wah
I recalculated our itinerary with the Hopewell Rocks and was able to include only two of the eight locations I had originally planned. Today was expected to be fairly cool, so it was going to be a puppy free day for the journey. We headed out shortly after nine, and arrived shortly after eleven. There was a fee to enter the Hopewell Park of $15.00 per person, a little more if you wanted to take the shuttle down to the rocks. We wanted to stretch our legs, so we opted to walk the park. The park pass was good for two days to allow you to experience the rocks from the safety of the platforms during high tide and walk along the rocks when the tide was out.
We hiked the entire park in about forty five minutes exploring each of the view platforms that jetted out out from the cliffs providing a view of the rocks along the cliffs. Unfortunately, the tide was in so we were stuck to the platforms for today. After the Hopewell Rocks, we headed to Cape Enrage lighthouse located halfway down the Chignecto Bay.
Cape Enrage seemed to be situated on an island that was at one time separated by a straight, Overtime sediment filled straight in, connecting the island to the mainland. On our arrival, there was a group of vehicles parked along the beach that connected Cape Enrage to the mainland. We pulled in and stepped out into an unusual beach. The entire beach was covered in flat, round stones of different sizes and Colours. The oddity is so unique that it is forbidden to remove any of the stone from the beach. The shape of the stones are perfect for inukshuks, over time people have built all different sized inukshuks that now cover a large section of the beach. I took the opportunity to launch the drone for an aerial view, while Lori explored these unusual rocks further down the beach. It did not take long before the horseflies found us and began to swarm, we quickly packed up and headed towards the lighthouse…. What can I say about the lighthouse….. ABL.
After Cape Enrage we headed to the visitors centre of the Fundy National Park before heading home for the day.
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