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13-Aug-2023

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13-Aug-2023   /   FlowerPot Rocks - High Tide
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This is a copy of a photo showing the water level on a day that had 49' tides.
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At high tide you can only go down to the to the first two decks down.
All of the above photos were between about 10:00am and 11:30am. High tide was around 11:00am.

13-Aug-2023   /   FlowerPot Rocks - Low Tide
We had a scheduled tour of the Ocean Floor at low tide at 2:30pm, Low tide was scheduled for 4:55pm.
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We started at the same lookout as we did in the morning.
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The Tour was starting to get together on the sandy area.

The tour starts at the bottom of the 101 steps of the overlook tower..
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We started by walking thru the arch of the main flowerpot.
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Looking to the right as we entered the arch.
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All of the Flowerpots have seaweed on the bottom and our guide talked about the seaweed.
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We walked on down thru the next inlet in the beach.
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Here our guide was explaining how the tide is still going out providing more beach.
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At the end of the inlet there were many more Flowerpots to be seen.
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After walking on the beach for about 1 hr we turned around and headed back.
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At about 2 hr we had returned to the observation tower.

Here we were given the choice of climbing 101 steps or continuing on to a ramp up to near the parking lot.
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Up the Ramp and our Tour is completed.

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