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A ten-minute walk down the beach from our seaside palace brings us to a low-tide botanical garden of algae/kelp/seaweed in all shapes and flavors. A flat purple kelp is harveted from rocks just off shore (you need a boat) and packaged as a snack - a bit like chewy, ocean-bred pork rinds. | ||||||||
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Note Teri (in the center of the photo) - the flanks of these upthrust basalt blocks are covered not with glistening rock, but with tons of the bladder form of seaweed (I once knew the name...). At high tide these rocks are completely immersed. | ||||||||
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The next morning we joined a guided beach tour led by guides from the Fundy Geological Museum. The view out to the bay that was the backdrop for our shoreline wanderings. | ||||||||
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The jumble on this beach has cascaded down from these red-rock cliffs for millenia leaving a rich harvest of fossils along the beach. Near outcrop below you can just make out the white dots of bobbing hats in or group along the low-tide surf. The area is rich in fossil remains and the smallest ever recorded dinosuar tracks - each footprint would not cover a dime (We didn't find any). | ||||||||
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Along this same stretch of beach we found many signs of seismic movement. Although subtle, two fragments of grey rock on the right center side of this picture make clear a horizontal displacement of about two inches - the lower fragment moving to the right of the fragment above - visible in many areas along the beach. |
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