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Truro - Hopewell Rocks 226 km. 3:07 hours. Elevation maximum 285 metres

We made it into New Brunswick today and are staying for the next couple of days in Hopewell Rocks on the western shore of the Bay of Fundy. We haven't finished with Nova Scotia, but we are giving them some time to clean up after some forest fires that were bad last week before the rain.

The TCH is a fast freeway through Nova Scotia into New Brunswick and as we didn't have too far to go today, we had a bit of a lie-in and got on our way around 10. Hild found us a nice detour for lunch - to see the world's biggest Sandpiper, called Shep, in Dorchester. There wasn't anywhere to eat there so we located a nature reserve a few minutes away and stopped there to make a cup of tea. There were no tables so we ate in Mary Jane - which was a good move as the mozzies thought that this was a chance for an early meal and dropped in on us!

Then it was a quick stop in Moncton for some provisions (milk) and we were at our motel before 3. We had picked this place - Hopewell Rocks Motel and Country Inn - because it is very close to the Hopewell Rocks Provincial Park which offers a great spot to watch the big tide. As we are in the bay now (not up the river like Truro) the tide is really big (14 meters!) and over many thousands of years has carved some fun rocks just here - hence the name. The motel is only 1.7 km from the park - just right for our evening walk to have a look around - and scope out where we plan to be tomorrow....

You see, after our success (well, not abject failure anyway) with the time-lapse video from Truro, we figure we are ready for the big one - a low-to-high tide video of the shore here! Rather encouragingly, the entrance fee for the park covers two consecutive days as they want people see both low and high tide. So we thought we should go for a walk tonight and see if there is a good spot to set up Tøfflus tomorrow, as well as find out the tide times. The Park center has some great information on the rocks, the tides, the birds etc. so we are fully primed now.
Our friend and (former) neighbour Alexis had told us about Hopewell Rocks as she had visited a couple of years ago with her sister - only it had been foggy so the view wasn't as good as they had hoped. There is some mist forecast for tomorrow, but as low tide is about noon, we figure it will be cleared by then and we should be good for the afternoon.

Coming up: Hopewell Rocks - from low to high!

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