June 13: Hopewell, plus other bits of New Brunswick

[kirkcudbright]

Hopewell Rocks, Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick, home of the highest tides in the world.

These formations are dubbed the "flower pots", because the tops stick out of the water as little islands of green at high tide.































Not everything is a stone beach at low tide. These are enormous mud flats, with a creek mouth meandering through, looking for the sea.



Jumping back to the beginning of the day, we found this cute little guy in Alma:



Cape Enrage:







Inside Sawmill Creek Bridge, built 1905:



On the road near Hopewell. This is still in use as a barn (there's stuff stored inside):



Finally, telephone pole in Sackville (a college town):

Comments

[solarbird]

OMG

every so often you lose track of How Goddamn Big those things are, and the you see the TINY PERSON and go OMG again.

Also, the pink and yellow moth(?) is unbelievably cute.

[weegoddess.livejournal.com]

Those flowerpot formations are amazing; some of them look so delicate and yet they are likely sturdier than most man-made structures.

And the moth! So cute! I'd never have believed that such colours would happen to a moth in Nature. I wonder if the little guys spends lots of time amongst the flowers.

[foms.livejournal.com]

http://scc.lexum.umontreal.ca/en/1993/1993rcs2-1084/1993rcs2-1084.html

[annathepiper]

Wow. Atlantic Canada: home of kickass music, very cool rock formations, and ZOMG INCREDIBLY CUTE LITTLE BUGS. ^_^

Now solarbird and I know what to look at if we ever go to New Brunswick!

[mamishka.livejournal.com]

Wow. All very amazing and pink and yellow mothy creature just about the cutest insect in existence.

Have to admit though, I got confused by the 21+ warning. I thought there were going to be pictures of nekkid peoples or something. >;-) Just goes to show where my mind is at these days. *^_^*

[kirkcudbright.livejournal.com]

Wow. The Supreme Court takes up the issue of postering on a utility pole. How...Canadian.

[kirkcudbright.livejournal.com]

There's lots of caution tape keeping people away from unstable cliff walls and caves. The same forces of tide, waves, and erosion that created the pillars will eventually bring them down, and create new ones. But yeah, probably not in our lifetimes.