Touring New Brunswick Canada

Hi All,
We left St. Andrews on Tuesday. It looked like another beautiful day was going to happen in St. Andrews. I decided I might try to spend more time there on the way back.

I drove through St. John, which looked like a very nice city and it had a huge cruise ship in the harbor. So far, I have not run into alot of traffic in New Brunswick. I have run into lots of people who are curious about my T@B - what's inside, how is it to tow, how cute it is, etc. Lots of folks with huge travel trailers appear to be considering downsizing - they might have what we call 'trailer envy.'


On to Fundy National Park. Although it is very nice, it is heavily wooded and I'm looking for beaches and sunshine. So I spent one chilly night there and then moved on up the coast. Here's a picture of the coastline just outside a prettly little town called Alma, right on the coast but still inside Fundy National Park.
I sidetracked to a place where people like to rock climb - a place called Cape Enrage. It sounded intriguing so I took the 20 mile detour to see it. Well, I was the only one there! I guess all the rock climbers went back to school? Here's a picture of the lighthouse up at the top of Cape Enrage, which was up a very steep and twisty road.


Then it was on to Hopewell Cape with the famous flowerpot rocks. It's 99 steps down to see them and 99 steps back up to the top. Whew! They had a very nice visitor center. Here's a shot of the rocks from above and then from the ocean floor. The big deal is that you can walk on the ocean floor at low tide and then when the tide comes in, the top of the rocks look like small islands which people like to kayak around.


















We drove up the western coast of New Brunswick to Kouchibouguac National Park. Again it was a beautiful wooded park with lots of marshland to explore. It would be a wonderful place to visit in the summer because there were lots of bike trails and opportunities to kayak. But I was there three days after they closed up the bike and kayak rental places as well as the restaurants. There were a few birds sitting in the river, looking for a free dinner.
Roxie has been a good girl on this trip, although she's had a few 'oh no' moments. One was just yesterday when I left her in the camper and forgot that I had two sandwich rolls within her reach. She made short work of them, and there went my dinner. She's actually been quite patient but was acting up a little after having several days of freedom at my cousin's place where she had several people taking her for walks through the woods several times a day. Unfortunately, Canada does not allow dogs on the beach so we got as close as we could this morning at Kelly Beach in Kouchibouguac National Park.

On the way out of the park, we saw not one but three bear cubs cross the road. First one trotted across and stopped quickly to look at me. I waited to see if the mother would cross and a second cub crossed, looked at me, and ran off into the woods. Then again a few seconds later, the third did the same. How cute. No sight of the mother. I tried to get a picture but was not very successful. Here's the only shot I could get - look closely at the lower left corner and you'll see the back end of the third bear cub!