Tide is halway out:
That, and it's the largest difference between high and low tide in the entire world. Amazing. So, kayaking was... ok. I was in the back, in charge of steering (and it seemed like most of the rowing), with my mother in the front. I enjoyed the actual kayaking enough, but that's all I'll say about that.
Besides the fact that I'm DONE with boats for a long while. I didn't get sick kayaking... but... I'm DONE.
However, seeing the tippy-tops of the rocks, being amongst them, touching them, gliding through passage ways--things that only insects and birds can do regularly--is, in all senses of the word, awesome and indescribable. Then, halfway through the tour, the tide had already receeded 25%. It was quite noticible since we had been through that area only an hour before.
After recooperating from kayaking, we walked around the park, did some geo-caching, and ate lunch at a restaurant. Man, are the squirrels bold! No sooner than we had stood up from the table, he scampered from the forest about 30 feet away, crawled up the deck and chair, and hopped up to the table and stole a French fry from one of our plates. He gobbled it down and then scampered away. We got a kick out of that--we were standing 2 feet away, at most, for the entire encounter.
A local/worker told us that the best time to view low tide was after lunch, so we made our way back to the water. Again, words simply cannot describe the shock and awe of seeing all of that land.
We walked along the mud flats and shore. Walking on the mud flats is prohibited, even though we saw many footprints. A kid walked past us, in the mud, and he sank 3-4 inches! Suffice it to say, he had trouble catching up to his family.
We had to climb over a lot of large rocks that had been underwater when we were kayaking. If the seabed wasn't mud, it was sharp little rocks (golf-ball-sized). The soles of my beach shoes are not very thick, so the soles of my feet got kinda sore.
Now, we were walking where we had kayaked earlier that morning, and we recognizing the tops of the rock formations. Simply mind-blowing!!! And, absolutely breathtaking.
I haven't seen a whole lot of amazing geological formations [throughout the world], but I do believe this will be hard to beat. I don't know why Hopewell Rocks isn't a Wonder of the Natural World. [Maybe it is--WiFi still isn't great, so we can't fact-check like we normally do.]
After witnessing these amazing tidal events, we prettymuch took it easy: saw another light house, geo-cached, had dinner and walked a Fossil Beach at Cape Enrage.
We got to bed an hour earlier than "normal," but we didn't have to wake up at the butt-crack of dawn the next day, either.
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