Visiting the Rocher Percé

Today (Monday) at lunch it was low tide, so Ben and his parents took a little walk out to the Rocher Percé (Pierced Rock). You can walk to it at low tide, but at high tide it's an island. The weather was relatively warm (for here) and the first part of the walk, along the beach, was sheltered, but it was very windy on the (land) bridge out to the rock. The geology is quite striking. The rocks at the end of Mont Joli (the point) are dark grey, maybe slate, with quartz veins, and the strata are almost straight up and down. The Rocher Percé is red rock, from a different geological era (we saw a map). It supposedly has fossils, although we didn't find any that we were sure of.