FOG BLOG NB NEWS LOG: RECENT STORM CRUMBLES ONE OF HOPEWELL'S ICONIC FLOWERPOTS!

Fundy Trail's iconic Flowerpot Rock tumbles in winter storm...The Bay of Fundy has lost another popular rock formation.

A storm last week pounded the area with 90 km/h winds and heavy rain, toppling Flowerpot Rock on the New Brunswick coast and leaving it in two pieces.

The narrow stack of rock rising from a beach marks where the coastline ran millions of years ago.

Dubbed Flowerpot Rock because of the trees growing on top of it, the attraction was like an echo of Hopewell Rocks, farther northeast on the Bay of Fundy. ......."I'm very disappointed to see that one of our key features in the park just fell over," said James Donald, the president of the Fundy Trail Development Authority Inc.

"It stood out from the coast. It's very photogenic. ... That was a unique part of the coast."

The Fundy Trail Parkway had built lookouts and a trail leading to Flowerpot Rock, visited by hikers and nature lovers every year.

The rock formation, called a sea stack, is along the Fundy Trail Parkway, 24 kilometres from St. Martins. Hopewell Rocks, which recently lost one of its own flowerpots to erosion, is a similar formation.