Flowerpots

 

New Brunswick in July is all about roses.  There are wild roses growing everywhere. They grow along roadsides, along rivers, and along walkways.  People make beautiful hedges out of them and the scent of the roses are lovely.

 

But there are other flowerpots in NB.  We made a special effort to see the Flowerpot Rocks along the Bay of Fundy.  

We made note of the time of the low tide – the optimal time to visit. But like the eager beavers we always have been, we were early.  Not too early; the tide was down and there were others there before us.  But once you make it down to the “ocean floor” as they call it, the rock bed I had expected was anything but rock.  It was mostly mud.  Slimy, thick, red mud.

The diversity in tackling the problem was there for all to see: people gingerly picking their way around the mud trying to stay on the firmer sand and gravel, children delighting in sloshing through the deepest parts, and some others in bare feet just enjoying the feel of the mud and alas sharp rocks/pebbles in their toes.

In hindsight, it would have been better to have waited for the full low tide to have drained the surface a little bit better.  And to have let all the other eager beavers go before, leaving drier footprints in some spots or even just making obvious the deeper slime as a place to avoid.

The flowerpots themselves were worth the mud.  Towering stands of rock with trees and shrubs crowning them were all along the bays and coves of the park.

And after taking advantage of the hoses strategically left at the top of the cliff to clean our feet, we could enjoy the roses along the walkway back to the parking lot.

Flowerpots on solid ground.

W