More Bay of Fundy, June 5, 2017

Canada Maple Leaf and United Nations Flags at Fundy National Park

We had a comfortable night in Fundy National Park and woke to a cloudy, cold morning - 47 degrees.  We explored the National Park, a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve  - it is primarily a hiking destination and beach vacations in warm summer weather.

We took one small walk among the pine trees to take in the views of the Bay of Fundy.

A beautiful covered bridge is within the park crossing over a river that once was dammed and has now been opened and letting the river return to its natural state.

Stopped at the visitor center and gift shop and the woman behind the counter was originally from Bridgewater, NJ - the town I lived in before moving to South Carolina.  We compared notes and it turned our wedding receptions were held in the same place - also the same place as our next door neighbors in South Carolina - a REALLY small world!

After checking out the adjoining village of Alma, we drove north to Cape Enrage.  Some of these local roads are horrendous!

A local art installation?

We walked around the lighthouse and had lunch in their restaurant.  They also had a zipline and rappelling down the cliffs - if it had been better weather we would have done both adventures....yeah, right.  Anyway, the lighthouse is a bit dumpy - short and squat and is now fully automated with the last lighthouse keepers leaving in the 1970's.  We had lunch in the restaurant that was highly recommended, and it did have the gorgeous views of the Bay, but otherwise, was quite ordinary, although dinner is supposed to be quite upscale.  Jack had a burger and was happy and I chanced their special soup - fiddlehead.  OK, so I though fiddlehead might be a fish since this is the coast, but no, fiddleheads are the little round tops of the fern bracken (or whatever it is called) when it first comes up and starts to unfold.  The soup was okay, but rather flavorless, other than the garlic they added.  Interesting, though.

We then headed north to a campground on the Bay near the Hopewell Rocks.  More on that in tomorrow's post.

 Back at our campsite, we had a visitor.  The poor Yellow Warbler was very busy attacking every window in the RV, so we thought maybe there was a nest in the pine tree next to us.  So we moved down two campsites.  Within 10 minutes, he was back.  Cute little guy, but really hope he doesn't hurt himself.

En route to Nova Scotia

We drove through Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine on the interstates. We prefer the secondary roads, but because we lost a few days waiting for RV parts, we decided to make up time by driving the fastest route possible to Canada. We saw diesel prices from $4.79 to $5.20 and were lucky to get our fuel at the lower end of the scale - plus our mileage has been increasing from around 15 mpg to over 16 mpg. We struggled a little converting liters to gallons and kilometers to miles (our speedometer doesn't have kilometers). We were slightly confused for a while when listening to the local radio station before I figured out that I had missed the fact that New Brunswick is on Atlantic time (one hour ahead of Eastern) - the same as Nova Scotia.

The Canada border crossing was busy, but we had no problems.
Driving along Canada's roads through New Brunswick we saw beautiful wildflowers everywhere.









We stopped at the Bay of Fundy National Park to experience the 40' tides. It has been misting and foggy all along the Bay of Fundy coast, but the weather cooperated long enough for us to take some great low and high tide photos and to take a couple of short walks.
We visited Alma, a small village next to the Park and saw the fishing boats stranded by the tide. Fishermen go out on high tide and can't return again until the next high tide, roughly 12 hours later.

We stayed at a nice campground right in the Park. We drove down the coast within the Park through this wonderful covered bridge. The view from the side of the bridge was this...
This morning we stopped at Cape Enrage where we walked down to the gravel beach just after high tide to watch the tide go out, but the fog and light rain moved in, so we had to leave before the tide was out.
After lunch, we drove up through New Brunswick and then down into Nova Scotia. I stopped and picked up a 6" high stack of brochures and information at the visitor's bureau. We arrived at our campground just outside Halifax around dinnertime.
We have tickets to the Royal International Tattoo tomorrow in Halifax. There is a link to the right that will tell you more about the Tattoo.