Photos from the Bay Of Fundy trip, August, 2016.

We first drove to Peterborough to visit Liz Thomas. Here, her grandson and great grandson play Nim.
f 4.6 @ 1/50, 35 mm, taken 2016:08:10 16:45:57.

Making a tiny square.
f 4 @ 1/30, 45 mm, taken 2016:08:10 16:59:04.

The square is done.
f 4 @ 1/25, 55 mm, taken 2016:08:10 16:59:06.

Robyn.
f 4 @ 1/30, 82 mm, taken 2016:08:10 21:22:31.

Kathie.
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Robyn and Eloise.
f 4 @ 1/40, 90 mm, taken 2016:08:10 21:28:42.

Liz
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Liz
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Liz
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Kathie and a grey cat.
f 4 @ 1/30, 84 mm, taken 2016:08:10 21:36:31.

Robyn and Eloise.
f 4 @ 1/40, 58 mm, taken 2016:08:10 21:36:48.

Liz making a quilt while Anna watches.
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Liz making a quilt.
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Robyn.
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Robyn.
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We then drove to the Loch Lomond camp site, Amherst, NS, Canada.
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At the Loch Lomond camp site, Amherst, NS, Canada.
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It's more of a trailer park, but a well kept one with friendly people.
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There is a lake SW of Loch Lomond.
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More of the lake.
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Yet more lake.
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A final view of the lake.
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At Maccan Tidal Wetlands Park, waiting for the tidal bore to come in. Note the odd current, perpendicular to the river itself.
f 7.6 @ 1/1250, 105 mm, taken 2016:08:13 06:44:33.

It was a foggy day. Note the bald eagle flying just below the tree line.
f 7.3 @ 1/1250, 105 mm, taken 2016:08:13 06:48:09.

The mud is quick mud. You don't want to walk out there.
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The park is located at 45.728899 N, 64.25415 W. It's worth the trip.
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Here comes the bore. It's that line across the stream, where the inflowing tide meets the outflowing stream.
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The bore moves upstream.
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The mud flats start to flood.
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The flood continues.
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And continues.
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The tide will continue to come in for a few hours after this.
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The tidal bore is almost out of sight.
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The water is now flowing upstream.
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The sand bars visible in earlier shots are gone.
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But not forgotten. These ripples are caused by a just submerged sand bar.
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Mud flat? What mud flat?
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88 year old Gordon Boss keeps the tide tables and manages the park. He was kind enough to drive down to us when he saw us drive into the park, and gave a very informative lecture on tidal bores, the river, and its flora and fauna. Here he signs our copy of the tide tables.
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Gordon and Kathie.
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Info about the park.
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Dew laden marsh grass.
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The forest is dense in the well watered Bay of Fundy
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We next drove to the Joggins Fossil Cliffs. A bit of information on the location...
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Heading down to the beach.
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A panorama from the cliffs overlooking Joggins beach.

Kathie finds a fossil, but leaves it on the beach for others to find as well. Only researchers are allowed to collect the fossils, which are over 300 million years old.
f 7 @ 1/320, 24 mm, taken 2016:08:13 10:42:25.

A collection of fossils found by the museum staff.
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A close up of the fossil on the left of the above photo. It's a Calamites, a huge bamboo like plant. Trees had not yet evoloved.
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Looking south along the beach.
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The tides make a colorful jumble of rocks.
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A coal seam. Most of earth's coal was formed in this age.
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Noticable erosion is an almost daily event.
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That toothpick like driftwood is actually a decent sized tree trunk.
f 6.6 @ 1/400, 65 mm, taken 2016:08:13 10:59:00.

Sky, sea, and shore.
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More colored pebbles.
f 7.6 @ 1/400, 32 mm, taken 2016:08:13 11:02:17.

Some parts of the beach have sand that is ground up coal.
f 7.3 @ 1/400, 24 mm, taken 2016:08:13 11:04:32.

This outcrop is as far as I got on my beach walk. The rocks had become dangerously slippery, and many were easily disloged by stepping on them.
f 7.3 @ 1/500, 50 mm, taken 2016:08:13 11:06:23.

A small stream empties into the bay.
f 7.6 @ 1/1600, 75 mm, taken 2016:08:13 11:15:28.

A tour begins to explore the beach with a museum staffer guiding them. Can you find Kathie in the group?
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The view across the bay. Note how clear the air is here in Nova Scotia. Our Silver Spring home rarely sees such clarity.
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A view from half way up the stairs to the beach.
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A Calamites trunk.
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The 300 million year old tracks of a giant millipede.
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A layer of rock that is much harder than those above or below it creates this shelf in the cliff.
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This tube in the fossilized mud layers you see here is the fossil of the stem of a plant.
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Some well preserved bits of bark.
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A stream/waterfall (depending on how much rain has recently occurred!) flows to the beach. You can also see a side view of that shelf of hard rock.
f 7 @ 1/320, 24 mm, taken 2016:08:13 12:07:55.

More fossils, with my swiss army knife for scale.
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More fossils.
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Kathie's found some fossil shells.
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The fossil shells. These are best viewed in high resolution.
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Clouds.
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Joggins beach at low tide.
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Wild flowers abound on the cliff tops.
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A tree trunk made of rock.
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Info about that tree trunk.
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Leaving the fossil museum, we drove north along Hardscrabble road and found this vista.
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The cliffs north of the fossil beds are very steep.
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Over the years, the cliffs have eroded back to almost the road edge. No, this is not the result of a car hitting the barrier, it's the soil under them giving way to the erosion. This is one fence you really don't want to jump!
f 7.6 @ 1/1000, 65 mm, taken 2016:08:13 13:08:34.

If the beach is wide and flat, the low tide mark can be a kilometer or more from the high tide mark.
f 8.3 @ 1/800, 24 mm, taken 2016:08:13 14:01:30.

Along Cove Road, Northwest of the Joggins fossil cliffs. We'll see the sunset from here in the photos below.
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We return to Maccan Tidal Wetlands Park, to watch the tide go out.
f 8.3 @ 1/640, 28 mm, taken 2016:08:13 14:51:41.

A panorama of the Maccan river as the tide goes out.

The dew has dried from the marsh grasses, but they're still exquisite.
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Info about the marsh.
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Info about the marsh.
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The sunset begins at Cove Road.
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The sunset continues.
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A view of the horizon near the sun, through a 560mm lens.

A distant fisherman seems nearby through the 560.

The sun bids goodby for the day.

Crepuscular rays.
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A panorama of the Cove Road sunset.

These clouds would soon cover the entire sky.
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A last view of the northwest horizon.
f 6 @ 1/160, 47 mm, taken 2016:08:13 19:31:11.

On the morning of August 14, we drove from Amherst to Fundy National Park, just south of Alma, New Brunswick, Canada. It was raining, so we didn't rush to set up the tent, but instead took a short hike to Dickson Falls. Here's Kathie in her new poncho awaiting my taking this picture.
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The gorge where the falls are located is a very wet environment, and moss does very well in it.
f 4 @ 1/5, 24 mm, taken 2016:08:14 09:37:54.

Perhaps the mossiest stream I've ever seen.
f 4 @ 1/6, 24 mm, taken 2016:08:14 09:38:25.

The gorge is quite steep, so the park built a nice set of stairs for easy access to it. Kathie again waits for me to take the photo.
f 4 @ 1/13, 24 mm, taken 2016:08:14 09:42:50.

A small waterfall below the falls themselves.
f 4 @ 1/6, 32 mm, taken 2016:08:14 09:44:15.

The small waterfall. Image stabilization makes such photos possible. Handholding 1/6th of a second without it requires rock steady hands.
f 4 @ 1/6, 32 mm, taken 2016:08:14 09:48:25.

This is actually three photos, combined by the camera into one. The leaves were much brighter than the forest floor, and a single shot would have shown a black forest floor, or over exposed leaves.
f 4 @ 1/13, 24 mm, taken 2016:08:14 09:50:38.

Dickson Falls.
f 4 @ 1/50, 24 mm, taken 2016:08:14 09:53:59.

A closer view of the falls.
f 4 @ 1/50, 55 mm, taken 2016:08:14 09:54:42.

A last view of the falls. There is usually much more water coming over them, but the rain we were walking through was the first that had fallen that summer, and the locals were rejoicing over the end of the drought.
f 4.6 @ 1/250, 45 mm, taken 2016:08:14 10:03:07.

We're back at the trail head again, and Kathie shows off her new poncho. An umbrella might not have survived the low hanging branches that abound on this trail.
f 4 @ 1/50, 24 mm, taken 2016:08:14 09:56:41.

Lookng north along Alma beach. The rock pile you see in the foreground is an abandoned pier.
f 7.3 @ 1/1250, 105 mm, taken 2016:08:14 14:24:18.

What's left of a crab.
f 7.3 @ 1/1000, 105 mm, taken 2016:08:14 14:29:10.

We've walked a bit to the north on the beach, and get a better view of the cliff in the earlier photo.
f 7.3 @ 1/1250, 105 mm, taken 2016:08:14 14:30:05.

A barnicle covered rock. Interestingly, not all of the rocks were thus covered. The barnacles here seem to be quite picky about the rock they want to live on.
f 7 @ 1/800, 105 mm, taken 2016:08:14 14:41:39.

A rather nice shell. Visitors are discouraged from taking the shells from the beach, and most don't. The photographic record suffices in this case.
f 7.6 @ 1/1600, 105 mm, taken 2016:08:14 14:49:29.

Seaweed and a half hidden shell.
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Some of the barnacles have been removed from this rock. I saw birds, from crows and seagulls to bald eagles picking away at something in these littoral rocks, and it might have been them that had eaten these barnacles.
f 6.3 @ 1/500, 105 mm, taken 2016:08:14 14:51:43.

Cliffs along north Alma beach.
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Looking south along the beach. The road leads up to the entrance to Fundy Natl Park.
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A panorama of Alma beach.

Low tide at Alma beach.
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A panorama of Alma beach low tide.

The town of Alma, from the beach.
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The town of Alma at high tide. Note how the fishing boats have risen!
f 6.6 @ 1/800, 105 mm, taken 2016:08:15 10:21:39.

Here's a panorama of the Fishing boats at low tide.

The shore of the Bay of Fundy abounds with wildflowers.
f 5.6 @ 1/100, 40 mm, taken 2016:08:15 07:35:18.

And berries.
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More flowers. We're on our way to see the rising tide at Point Wolfe.
f 6 @ 1/200, 50 mm, taken 2016:08:15 07:36:45.

Flowers!
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Point Wolfe. The shore was dark, and the sky quite bright, despite the overcast. The camera had a hard time adjusting the exposure.
f 7.6 @ 1/500, 24 mm, taken 2016:08:15 07:39:32.

A panorama of Point Wolfe as the tide comes in.

A panorama of the Point Wolfe shore.

One of many streams flowing into Point Wolfe.
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Kathie checks out some driftwood.
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Another view of the point.
f 6.3 @ 1/500, 105 mm, taken 2016:08:15 07:44:53.

Multi colored rocks on the beach. This is the first time I can remember seeing rocks of this shade of purple!
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Waiting for the tide to do something dramatic, bored tourists see how high they can make a stack of rocks.
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An abandoned viewpoint on the beach.
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The dense forest abrubtly ends at the shoreline.
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Sandpipers await low tide, exposing the inverterbrate rich mud for them to feed in.
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The tide continues to advance.
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These posts will soon be under water.
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A panorama of Point Wolfe at high tide.

Had I mentioned that the wildflowers were exquisite?
f 5.6 @ 1/250, 93 mm, taken 2016:08:15 09:19:33.

A rose by any name... This one smelled as good as it looks, too.
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A covered bridge. Build in 1992? Yep!
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The remains of a huge wooden dam, built to create a lake to float the logs that had been cut from surrounding forest so they could be easily loaded into boats which came up Point Wolfe at high tide. The dam has been removed so that Atlantic salmon can again spawn upriver.
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Point Wolfe, from the covered bridge.
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Berries in moss.
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The remains of a mud slide.
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High tide at Alma beach.
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The complex currents of the bay cause different textures on the water's surface.
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Another view of the cliff north of Alma beach.
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The southern peninsula at the end of Alma beach. Earlier, we saw a large doe and its yearling out on the tip. What they were doing there, in a place berift of food or cover for them was a mystery.
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The southern edge of Alma beach.
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We left Alma for the Cape Enrage lighthouse. Here are some of the cliffs near the cape.
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Another view of the cliffs.
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The steps to the lighthouse.
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The lighthouse itself. The device in front of the lightouse is a fog horn, and visitors are warned that it will be working in a fog, and painfully loud.
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Seagulls on the rocks.
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Looking across the bay.
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A panorama from the Cape Enrage lighthouse.

One of many hardy trees that needed to take an extreme turn to live where they do.
f 8.3 @ 1/1250, 70 mm, taken 2016:08:15 11:52:31.

Path to the fossil cliffs below Cape Enrage.
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At the base of the fossil cliffs. Various groups also learn to rappel from these cliffs, thus the ropes and timbers hanging from the cliff top.
f 7 @ 1/250, 35 mm, taken 2016:08:15 11:57:59.

Fossil plants. Again, these fossils are around 300 million years old.
f 6.6 @ 1/400, 65 mm, taken 2016:08:15 12:01:59.

A superbly preserved plant stem.
f 6.3 @ 1/400, 96 mm, taken 2016:08:15 12:42:05.

Fossil plants.
f 6.3 @ 1/500, 105 mm, taken 2016:08:15 12:09:20.

Calamites?
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Stacking rocks is popular here, too.
f 7.3 @ 1/400, 47 mm, taken 2016:08:15 12:25:54.

More stacked rocks. The first winter storm will put them in their place!
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Steep cliffs, with some people for scale.
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Another view of the cliffs.
f 7.6 @ 1/400, 24 mm, taken 2016:08:15 12:29:50.

Kathie holds a rock with plant fossils.
f 6.6 @ 1/640, 105 mm, taken 2016:08:15 12:33:14.

One doesn't walk over these rocks. One very carefully puts one foot in front of the other, first ensuring that the rock isn't loose.
f 6.6 @ 1/250, 28 mm, taken 2016:08:15 12:34:45.

Fossils!
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A close up of the larger fossil.
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Tall cliffs dwarf Kathie.
f 6.6 @ 1/200, 24 mm, taken 2016:08:15 12:43:17.

The clouds roll in. That night, it rained for several hours.
f 8.3 @ 1/1250, 75 mm, taken 2016:08:15 12:44:07.

Rock falls are a common occurance here. The guides warn you to stay away from the base of the cliffs. Kathie, as you can see, survived her trip there.
f 6.6 @ 1/320, 60 mm, taken 2016:08:15 12:47:39.

Make sure you pause to smell the flowers. Wild flowers tend to have lovely smells that cultivated ones lack. The bumble bee has figured this out.
f 5.6 @ 1/400, 105 mm, taken 2016:08:15 14:21:17.

From Cape Enrage, we went to the Mary's Point bird sanctuary. The tide was out, so the birds were at the water's edge and very distant from the viewing platform. This is the best I could do, with the 560. There are a few dots on the shore that are actually birds. We came back at high tide (see below) and did see enormous flocks of them.

Driving away from Mary's Point, we came upon a duck marsh.
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A panorama of the duck marsh.

Info on the marsh.
f 8 @ 1/800, 105 mm, taken 2016:08:15 14:44:38.

Info on the birds.
f 8 @ 1/320, 65 mm, taken 2016:08:15 14:45:02.

Info on the birds.
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Info on the birds.
f 8 @ 1/250, 40 mm, taken 2016:08:15 14:45:41.

We then drove to Hopewell, to see the hopewell rocks. Entering the park, we first encountered Daniel's flats.
f 8 @ 1/500, 105 mm, taken 2016:08:15 15:29:58.

Info on Daniel's flats.
f 8 @ 1/640, 47 mm, taken 2016:08:15 15:30:19.

Diamond rock at low tide.
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Diamond rock at high tide.
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Hopewell rocks. We began a tour of the celebrated "flowerpot" rocks. Here we see some of them from the stairs that connect the cliff to the beach.
f 8 @ 1/50, 28 mm, taken 2016:08:15 15:45:42.

A closer view.
f 8 @ 1/50, 32 mm, taken 2016:08:15 15:45:49.

Closer still.
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The rocks from the beach.
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Visitors are strongly discouraged from clambering around in the caves near the edge of the cliffs.
f 8 @ 1/20, 24 mm, taken 2016:08:15 15:49:19.

Here's why. The rocks you see here fell just this year. Had you been under them...
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The roots of this flowerpot are seaweed!
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Walking around the flowerpots.
f 8 @ 1/40, 58 mm, taken 2016:08:15 15:54:19.

Seaweed for a shirt, and a pine tree for a feather in your cap.
f 8 @ 1/60, 70 mm, taken 2016:08:15 15:55:20.

Sea sculpted rocks, with some people for scale.
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A bit of color in this pot.
f 8 @ 1/50, 65 mm, taken 2016:08:15 15:57:25.

Each viewing angle of the rocks shows a different aspect.
f 8 @ 1/30, 35 mm, taken 2016:08:15 15:58:36.

Layers of rock of differing hardness make these formations what they are.
f 8 @ 1/40, 47 mm, taken 2016:08:15 15:59:04.

Flowerpot rocks. They've been there since before the pyramids, but are ephemeral in geologic time.
f 8 @ 1/20, 40 mm, taken 2016:08:15 15:59:32.

At low tide, one is literally walking on the sea floor.
f 8 @ 1/40, 24 mm, taken 2016:08:15 16:00:46.

Rocks with people for scale.
f 8 @ 1/50, 70 mm, taken 2016:08:15 16:01:31.

Be careful walking on these wet, slippery rocks! A few folk wern't while we were there, but luckily only dirtied their clothes. At the visitor's center at the top of the cliffs, there was an outdoor shower that allowed you to clean off before getting back in your car.
f 8 @ 1/160, 24 mm, taken 2016:08:15 16:02:19.

More rocks with people for scale.
f 5.6 @ 1/100, 40 mm, taken 2016:08:15 16:04:04.

It's not easy being a tree, living on a rock, covered with salt spray all the time!
f 5.3 @ 1/100, 45 mm, taken 2016:08:15 16:07:22.

A view of the stairs that lead to the sea floor.
f 5.6 @ 1/160, 60 mm, taken 2016:08:15 16:09:06.

A wide angle view.
f 5.6 @ 1/100, 24 mm, taken 2016:08:15 16:10:48.

More rocks and tourists.
f 6 @ 1/200, 45 mm, taken 2016:08:15 16:13:37.

The trees really have to convolute themselves to live here.
f 5.3 @ 1/80, 24 mm, taken 2016:08:15 16:13:49.

The tide is beginning to come in again.
f 6.6 @ 1/250, 24 mm, taken 2016:08:15 17:08:13.

Another view of that recent rock fall.
f 5.6 @ 1/125, 47 mm, taken 2016:08:15 17:08:48.

We then drove back to our campsite at Fundy Nat Park. At least the tent was still dry inside, but everything else was soaked.
f 4 @ 1/20, 28 mm, taken 2016:08:16 05:38:32.

About 20' (6 meters, the Canadians are metric), from our campsite was a very steep gorge that fell to the Alma river. The trees would prevent you from falling into the gorge, but it would be a very difficult walk to go down to the river from our camp site.
f 4.6 @ 1/60, 28 mm, taken 2016:08:16 05:38:54.

Sunrise at Alma beach, looking south.
f 7 @ 1/400, 55 mm, taken 2016:08:16 05:55:24.

We drove back to Hopewell Rocks, to watch the tide come in. Here are Daniel's flats, with the tide halfway in.
f 8 @ 1/640, 32 mm, taken 2016:08:16 07:15:59.

The recent rockfall. The tide's still comming in.
f 6.6 @ 1/200, 32 mm, taken 2016:08:16 07:35:57.

The rockfall, 2.5 hours later. High tide.
f 5.6 @ 1/1000, 45 mm, taken 2016:08:16 10:03:03.

Flowerpot rocks and the Bay of Fundy.
f 7 @ 1/500, 58 mm, taken 2016:08:16 07:37:40.

The scattered clouds make for interesting lighting on the bay.
f 7.6 @ 1/1600, 300 mm, taken 2016:08:16 07:41:13.

The tide advances.
f 5.6 @ 1/320, 160 mm, taken 2016:08:16 07:41:44.

It's almost up to the rocks.
f 6 @ 1/320, 70 mm, taken 2016:08:16 07:43:27.

A flock of pigeons flies by.
f 8.6 @ 1/2000, 90 mm, taken 2016:08:16 07:44:24.

The lower rocks and tidal flats are covered.
f 7 @ 1/800, 105 mm, taken 2016:08:16 07:47:30.

A few shafts of sunlight still make it to the bay.
f 8.3 @ 1/2000, 105 mm, taken 2016:08:16 07:54:05.

More sun and water.
f 8.3 @ 1/2500, 300 mm, taken 2016:08:16 08:02:38.

Soon the people will have no more beach to stand on.
f 7 @ 1/640, 70 mm, taken 2016:08:16 08:07:23.

A northern cousin of spanish moss.
f 5.6 @ 1/400, 300 mm, taken 2016:08:16 08:08:24.

Sunlight glinting on the bay.
f 8.6 @ 1/3200, 180 mm, taken 2016:08:16 08:10:19.

Beach? What beach?
f 6.6 @ 1/500, 140 mm, taken 2016:08:16 08:17:51.

A wide angle shot reveals that there's a little beach left.
f 8.3 @ 1/640, 24 mm, taken 2016:08:16 08:28:44.

A tree grows 180 degrees to keep up with the advancing cliff.
f 7.3 @ 1/320, 24 mm, taken 2016:08:16 08:30:28.

There's enough water under the rocks for kayaks.
f 7 @ 1/320, 47 mm, taken 2016:08:16 08:36:59.

The tide continues its advance.
f 6.3 @ 1/250, 60 mm, taken 2016:08:16 09:18:45.

Currents in the bay make for interesting textures on its surface.
f 7.6 @ 1/1250, 105 mm, taken 2016:08:16 09:21:33.

The beach is almost gone.
f 6.6 @ 1/400, 58 mm, taken 2016:08:16 09:25:20.

The tide continues its advance.
f 7.3 @ 1/400, 40 mm, taken 2016:08:16 09:37:02.

To appreciate these tides, one must be willing to spend hours watching them.
f 7 @ 1/500, 75 mm, taken 2016:08:16 09:38:58.

The forest on the cliff top.
f 5.6 @ 1/320, 105 mm, taken 2016:08:16 09:42:43.

The kayaks return from their jaunt.
f 6.3 @ 1/250, 60 mm, taken 2016:08:16 09:52:24.

Almost high tide.
f 7.3 @ 1/320, 24 mm, taken 2016:08:16 09:55:31.

Rocks, trees, sky and water.
f 6.6 @ 1/400, 65 mm, taken 2016:08:16 09:55:41.

Beach? What beach?
f 7.6 @ 1/400, 24 mm, taken 2016:08:16 10:02:16.

High tide.
f 5.6 @ 1/640, 60 mm, taken 2016:08:16 10:08:10.

A wide angle view of high tide.
f 8 @ 1/500, 24 mm, taken 2016:08:16 10:11:25.

Another view of high tide.
f 7.6 @ 1/400, 24 mm, taken 2016:08:16 10:12:09.

Walking down the stairs a bit yields this view.
f 7.6 @ 1/400, 24 mm, taken 2016:08:16 10:15:32.

The bay glints in the sun.
f 8.3 @ 1/2500, 105 mm, taken 2016:08:16 10:16:23.

Diamond rock.
f 6.3 @ 1/500, 105 mm, taken 2016:08:16 10:34:54.

Another view of Diamond rock.
f 6.3 @ 1/500, 105 mm, taken 2016:08:16 10:37:14.

A Calamities and its information.
f 4.6 @ 1/125, 67 mm, taken 2016:08:16 10:41:37.

Leaving Hopewell rocks, we again journied to Mary's point to try and see the birds. What looks like a distant shoal of rocks is in reality many thousands of sandpipers.
f 8 @ 1/1600, 105 mm, taken 2016:08:16 11:23:31.

View this photo at high resolution, and you can see the birds in that huge flock.
f 8 @ 1/1600, 105 mm, taken 2016:08:16 11:25:42.

Another view of the flock. Again, high resolution is recommended.
f 7.6 @ 1/1600, 105 mm, taken 2016:08:16 11:26:09.

Some of the sandpipers begin to feed along the shore.
f 7.6 @ 1/1600, 105 mm, taken 2016:08:16 11:42:20.

A small portion of the flock takes wing.
f 8 @ 1/1250, 99 mm, taken 2016:08:16 11:42:34.

Many flying, most standing, sandpipers.
f 8 @ 1/1250, 99 mm, taken 2016:08:16 11:42:37.

More fly to the shore to feed.
f 8 @ 1/1250, 88 mm, taken 2016:08:16 11:43:32.

They all settle down again.
f 8 @ 1/1250, 73 mm, taken 2016:08:16 11:44:44.

Only to start flying again.
f 7.6 @ 1/1250, 105 mm, taken 2016:08:16 11:48:27.

A last view of the sandpiper flock.

We again head to Alma beach, where this shell was found.
f 7.3 @ 1/1000, 105 mm, taken 2016:08:16 15:54:18.

A buoy off of the beach. The black speck just under the buoy is a bald eagle and its immature young, poking about the beach for something to eat.
f 7.6 @ 1/1250, 105 mm, taken 2016:08:16 16:00:39.

We walked out to the edge of the water. Turning around, I made several panorams of the Alma shore.

Looking north.

Looking south.

Leaving the Bay of Fundy, we drove back to Liz's in Peterborough. Here are Robyn and Eloise.
f 4 @ 1/15, 50 mm, taken 2016:08:17 20:40:19.

Liz.
f 4 @ 1/10, 67 mm, taken 2016:08:17 21:17:19.

Another shot of Liz.
f 4 @ 1/10, 67 mm, taken 2016:08:17 21:17:21.

And another.
f 4 @ 1/10, 73 mm, taken 2016:08:17 21:49:06.

Another shot of Robyn and Eloise.
f 4 @ 1/15, 60 mm, taken 2016:08:17 21:49:41.

Nam Pal took this one of me.
f 4 @ 1/25, 105 mm, taken 2016:08:19 08:26:16.

And this one.
f 4 @ 1/50, 105 mm, taken 2016:08:19 08:26:28.

Robyn.
f 4 @ 1/40, 105 mm, taken 2016:08:19 08:26:59.

Kathie.
f 4.3 @ 1/125, 105 mm, taken 2016:08:19 08:27:11.

Another shot of Kathie.
f 4.3 @ 1/125, 105 mm, taken 2016:08:19 08:27:12.

Liz examines the quilt she's making.
f 4 @ 1/50, 105 mm, taken 2016:08:19 08:27:43.

Nampal
f 4.3 @ 1/80, 55 mm, taken 2016:08:19 08:28:51.

Helga.
f 4 @ 1/80, 105 mm, taken 2016:08:19 16:12:31.

Another shot of Helga.
f 4 @ 1/100, 105 mm, taken 2016:08:19 17:15:14.

Terry.
f 4 @ 1/80, 105 mm, taken 2016:08:19 17:15:19.

Terry and I have morning coffee.
f 5 @ 1/60, 24 mm, taken 2016:08:20 09:39:42.

Kathie and Helga in discussion.
f 4.6 @ 1/60, 24 mm, taken 2016:08:20 11:13:22.

Helga and Terry work on their various projects.
f 4 @ 1/4, 47 mm, taken 2016:08:20 21:26:03.