Saturday 21 May 2022--There are many places around the Bay of Fundy
where extraordinary tides and soft sedimentary rocks combine to create
towering sea stacks. Nowhere else are there so many, so spectacular, as at
Hopewell Cape, and Hopewell Rocks Provincial Park has been set aside to
showcase them. The tide charts say the beach will be accessible at about 9:45,
so I'm away early to make the 45-minute drive. I'm a bit worried about it being
busy on a Saturday, but it isn't at all bad when I arrive. (There will be three or
four times as many cars in the lot when I leave a few hours later.) You can read
about it in the linked website, if you're interested. I'll let the photos speak for me.
Back in Alma, I have a lobster roll at the Alma Lobster Shop, followed by a
pint at Holy Whale. There isn't a whole lot to the village here, but there are
enough places to eat that you could dine in a different restaurant every night for
a week before you'd have to settle for the pizza shop. It's the Muddy Rudder
for me this evening--awesome scallops, which leave me inclined to overlook the
mediocre fries. There's a beer from Holy Whale, too. I like Alma a lot, and will
consider using it as a stopover on the way to or from Prince Edward Island and
the Magdalen Islands, if not in fact for a closer look around this neglected
corner of New Brunswick.
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