A long hike

Today we had to move from the Chignecto North campground to Headquarters, still in Fundy National Park, and only a couple of miles away.

Our new site is not quite as private as the previous one (we really could not see our neighbors even though they were within 20' or so because the woods were so dense), it is a nice site, very wide and very flat.

From the Headquarters campground, there is a nice overlook of Alma - this is at high tide (or close)

You might remember pictures from a couple of days ago showed the fishing boats on the mud flats (http://trekincartwrights.blogspot.com/2016/08/fundy-national-park-chignecto-campground.html) - here they are floating. Right in the middle of the picture, you may be able to see a bright spot of yellow (on land, not the boat) - those are the chairs where Dwayne took Patti's picture at low tide (http://trekincartwrights.blogspot.com/2016/08/hopewell-rocks-rocks-part-1.html).

We had gotten recommendations of some easy hikes when we visited the visitor center a couple of days ago, so we headed toward Point Wolfe to hike one of them. However, we decided when we got there to do a "moderate" level trail instead. The park booklet said that Coppermine trail was a 4.4km loop that would take 1.5-2 hours. We started at a scenic overlook at about 1:30pm.

That doesn't look too tough!

Pretty stream with a nice bridge over it...

Uhm... it is getting a little more steep...

What happened to those nice bridges that crossed the streams/stream beds? Oh well, we can do it!

One thing that was interesting - this forest was made up of evergreen trees (we think fir) and birch. Many times the birch tree was growing right up beside the fir tree - sharing the same root area. If we have a chance, we'll try to ask someone why that is the case - the ground was very rocky (large stones) so maybe the evergreen got a foothold first, and provided enough dirt for the birch to also grow. A lot of times, though, the birch would be dead at about 6" in diameter and the fir tree still living.

After about two hours, we came to this overlook that had red chairs from the park service. We could see white caps on the bay - a bit windier/rougher than the previous days we have been here.

National Park red chair

My sweetie in the red chair!

If you look carefully, you can distinguish Dwayne down there looking to see if there is a view.

4:30pm, 3 hours after we left the initial scenic overlook we returned to it!

We obviously got more enjoyment out of the trail than most folks as it took us more like 3 hours. But we both are over 13,000 steps for the day! And though our feet are tired, we feel good for having done it!

And... for 7th of 7 pictures with my sweetie for the 7 day challenge...

On our honeymoon, on Maui - yes, we got matching shirts, and we were at some kind of "paniolo" (cowboy) event. We may not look as young anymore (and we certainly would have had no concern with doing the hike that we did today at that time) - but I think we're more in love, and we definitely know that our love will weather the tests and trials that will come up in life!