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Lookout #1 -
Daniel Flats - Later the two RV Gypsies will actually walk on Demoiselles
Beach which is just in front of Daniels Flats - (those photos are towards
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Below: Diamond Rock as seen from the lookout
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Below: Diamond Rock as seen as Lee and Karen Duquette walked on the
beach.
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Below: Big Cove as photographed by Karen Duquette from the lookout.
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Below: Big Cove as seen from the stairs down to the beach. Look
how small that person looks near the big rocks. |
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Below: Then it was time for Lee and Karen Duquette to
walk the beach for more views of Big Cove .
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Two two RV Gypsies heard some
people say that they counted the steps down as 96 steps.
Each day the two RV Gypsies walked down these stairs to get to the beach,
but each day they found a different way OFF the beach.
The first day, they climbed over big rocks to get to Demoiselles Beach
(that was difficult).
The second day they walked a distance behind the stairs and found a
short set of stairs up to a parking lot. |
As per the yellow sign and clock below, everyone MUST be off the beach
by a certain time or they will find themselves under water. Later on
down this page there is a photo of an emergency platform. One of the
rangers told the two RV Gypsies that once an Australian was stranded
there for six hours waiting to be rescued. That does NOT sound like
fun.
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Below; Upon reaching the bottom of the stairs, the two
RV Gypsies looked back at the staircase.
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Below: Big rocks with trees on top are known as Flower Pots.
Although the flowerpot rocks come in a variety of different shapes and
sizes, they all have been formed over million of years by the dynamic
movements of the earth and erosion form glaciers, tides, ice and winds.
There are several different flower pots on the beach, each with different
shapes. Below is first view of Flower Pots as seen from the landing on
the stairs. |
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Below; Flower pots as seen from the beach. This is the most famous
and most photographed set of Flower Pots on this beach.
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Below: Now the two RV Gypsies stood under the Flower
Pots shown in the photo above. The first set of photos were taken with
the photographer's back to the water.
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Below: The photos shown below were taken with the photographer facing
the water.
(different clothes and a different day - this place is worth walking
around twice)
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Below: The two RV Gypsies walked towards the area behind
the stairs. Lee Duquette thought the rock formation looked like a dinosaur's
head.
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Below: Another Flower Pot rock
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Below: A different Flower Pot rock
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Below: Use your imagination and see the face on this rock
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The below photos have people in them and shows how big these formations actually are. |
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This formation
looked different each time the two RV Gypsies moved just a few inches. In the first photo below,
there was an opening between the two rocks. In the second photo, the two
rocks appeared to be lightly touching at one point only. |
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In the photo below,
it appeared that the two rocks touched more firmly and the opening resembled
a candle flame. They really do not touch each other. It is all a matter
of where the two RV Gypsies stood to take the photos. |
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Lee Duquette thought the rock formation below resembled an elephant's
butt with a glob of poop stuck in the butt. LOL |
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Lee Duquette thought the formation shown below resembled King Kong
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Notice that "King
Kong" looks to be of a different coloration in each of these three
photos. That must be because they were taken on different days, with different
sun lighting, and two different cameras. The bottom photo is the actual
color that all of the rock formations appeared in the eyes of the two RV
Gypsies. |
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Time for photos of the beach and the water itself. Actually, this is
NOT really a beach. It is just low tide. At high tide all of this area
that the two RV Gypsies have been walking on is under water. |
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Below: This rock formation looked like a FACE to the two RV Gypsies.
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Below: The Emergency Platform on a high pile of rocks - in case someone
is stupid enough to get caught here at high tide. The wait would be
many hours before rescue and the waves would certainly splash over the
platform getting the idiot wet. There is NO exit from the emergency
platform during high tide.
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A ranger told the two RV Gypsies that since the rocks were dry today,
they could climb over these rocks as a shortcut to Demoiselles Beach
and that way they would not have to take the long walk back to the big
staircase because they could exit the area from Demoiselles Beach. It
was impossible to walk around these rocks, so the two RV Gypsies decided
to climb over the rocks.
What they did not realize is that there were a LOT more rocks other
than the few they saw here. It was NOT an easy climb for them.
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After
climbing over the rocks, it was necessary to walk in a bit of mud before
coming to the area shown below.
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Below After rounding the corner, Karen Duquette took a look back at
the formation.
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Below: Lee and Karen Duquette finally reached the Demoiselles Beach
and the Mud Flats. These are the same mud flats as seen from the first
observation deck at the beginning of this page.
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Below: After exiting the beach, the two RV Gypsies saw
the sign with the name of the beach.
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The
end of a perfect day
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Walking the path through the woods to return to their truck, the two
RV Gypsies saw an observation deck that actually gave a view of the RV
park they were staying in and could see their RV, known as AWO which stands
for "All We Own" (since they do NOT own nor rent a home anywhere). |
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On day two at Hopewell Rocks, the two RV Gypsies marveled that the big
rock with pebble formations all over was still the same as it appeared
yesterday. After all, this rock was completely UNDER WATER at high tide
during the evening. |
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On day two at Hopewell Rocks, , the two RV Gypsies walked the area behind
the staircase down (remember the 96 steps at the beginning of this page)
and they eventually came to a very short staircase leading to a parking
lot.
At the top of this shorter staircase, they loved the pattern of the
area below. |
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Then the two RV Gypsies had to take turns cleaning the
mud off their sneakers.
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Then the two RV Gypsies walked
through the parking lot that was at the top of the stairs, stopped for
an ice cream at the concession stand, then walked past the original set
of 96 steps, and back onto the original path in the woods to their truck
in the bigger parking lot. |
After
you have seen all 10 of the sections above - Continue on to the next adventure
of the two RV Gypsies 2011 travels in Canada
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