Tom and Barbara told us to check out the rocks at Hopewell. As we pulled into the place we were exposed to our first major tourist attraction: big buses lined up in the parking lot and foreign languages being spoken; a fleet of golf carts came and went hauling people. Red sandstone has been carved out of a high bank of the Bay of Fundy leaving a squadron of sea stacks marching to the low water mark. Hundreds of people were descending the staircase to the red mud /gravel beach to “walk on the ocean floor.” At the top of the staircase was a huge clock with the time for you to have your bod off the “ocean floor” because of the famous incoming tidal bore that screams up the narrow bay. After the obligatory photos, we fled back to Snee-Oosh and headed for the long bridge.
The Confederation Bridge is eight miles long and is eleven years old. It’s billed as the longest bridge in the world over ice-covered waters. It took us ten minutes to drive the that eight miles of the fixed link onto Prince Edward Island also known as “Anne Land” from the book of Anne of Green Gables. Talk about heavy promotional marketing!! It was everywhere along with the deep red soil. PEI is an agricultural based island with potatoes, corn and other grains being grown. We stopped for the night at Summerside along the western shore and watched the sunset over the ocean; the only body of land that you can do that on on the east coast.
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