Due to a year of clipped wings, I have run out of current places where I have sprinkled Dave’s ashes. So until we can comfortably start traveling again, I will share beautiful places from the past where I have spread his ashes. They just didn’t make it into a post. There are so many more places than what I have reported in Remembering Dave.
This trip was in 2016.
Hopewell Rocks are rock formations caused by tidal erosion by the Bay of Fundy. It is a unique and beautiful place to visit in that, for a 3 hour period each day, you can walk along the rocky ocean floor before the tide comes rushing in. This is plenty of time to admire to 40 to 70 ft. rock towers, but always keeping an eye on your watch for the estimated time of the highest tide in the world. Up to 46 ft. of water fills the ocean floor at 12 ft. an hour!
You don’t want to ignore the warning siren alerting you that it is time to leave the area. If you wait too long, there is a tower you can climb to wait for someone to rescue you, which must be quite embarrassing.
As beautiful as this area is, I could only smile to myself as I imagined Dave being one those tower people. I can still hear him saying to me, “Ma, sometimes you have to live on the edge.” That he did.
I sprinkled his ashes on the ocean floor and built a small cairn nearby knowing that the tide would come rushing in and sweep him out to sea. That’s ok, he would’ve ignored the siren anyway.
Another unique, yet beautiful, place for Dave.
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