Wednesday September 23, 2015

Another hilly ride to day. We left our hosts, Susan and John at 9:00 and headed out to Hopewell Rocks.

The Bay of Fundy is renowned to have the highest tides in the world.

As the tide is receding it leaves these mud flats, that have small crustaceans in them that feeds the birds on their migration path.

As we made the turn down to the rocks, I saw Ralf checking the map to see how far down the road we had to go. I carried on cycling, if he thought I had cycled up and down all those hills yesterday and not see the Rocks, he was going to have to think again. When we got to the area of the Rocks we discovered you had to pay to go down to the beach area and see the rocks! Ralf was checking the prices. I carried on to the kiosk and asked where we could put the bikes. She was really nice and Ralf asked if there was a military discount. Yes there was, so we got a $2.00 reduction in price.

At low tide you can walk on the ocean floor at high tide you can only see a very small portion of these flower pots. Last nights high tide was 7 metres, in the summer it can be as high as 15 metres. To put it in perspective, during high tide the water came half way up the arch on this rock.

Then we went down to the Ocean Floor – amazing.

We grabbed a quick sandwich at the café at and headed out towards Hillsborough and Moncton.

John had told us about this great place in Hillsborough that had the best cinnamon buns and I really fancied one, the store was closed aaaaggh.

The rest of the ride was constantly up and down, it was a tough ride for me. I couldn’t seem to get any rhythm going. We eventually got into Moncton around 4:00.

We found a motel and while Ralf went to get something for dinner, I looked at the rest of the route, we will probably be in Halifax around mid-October.

Ralf came back with quiche and a salad, very nice. He had taken quite a while, as the store and bank he had found on the Garmin no longer existed – there was a big open lot where they used to be.