Week Five, Friday 9/28

Rain began at 3:30 am and continued till around Noon. That gave us needed time to do laundry and other household chores. In the afternoon, we walked to town and poked around. We've stumbled onto a lovely old town on the Passamaquoddy Bay. The tidal variation here is about 26'. The town was settled by Loyalists who fled the American Revolution - some brought their homes with them. We toured several historic churches and homes, inc Sheriff Andrews house (1820), Ross Memorial Museum (1824), and ended up checking out the 1832 county jail, a horror of a place that housed prisoners up to 1979! Ate a wonderful lunch at Great Harvest Market. Back in camp, after supper and towards dusk and a near-record low tide, we spied "ants" WAY out on the recently-revealed ocean floor. Wasn't really ants - it was people, so far out they looked like ants. Jimmy put on his boots and I put on my hikers and we joined them. Figured we walked a half mile or more over rocks and sand and seaweed! The people were 3rd and 4th year marine biology students studying what they could find with this super low tide. It was great fun to be out there with them, but darkness sent us all back to shore. They'll be back in the morning for the 8:30 low tide... and we'll join them again. The two photos above show the same place: Almost-low and High Tide!