New Brunswick, Canada Part 2

On Monday, the 4th of July we had lobster rolls, strawberies and homemade potato salad for lunch...yum was it good.  Bill came back with it as a surprise from Donna at her place which was a little wooden building .  Her daughter and grandaughters would help her run the place and a few times we drove by after 9:00 at night and she was still open.  She also was a realtor and tried to talk Bill into buying the place across the street.  It had a large yard and was a two story nice house for $190,000.

It rained and was foggy for most of the day so we stayed at the campground walking Ty whenever

possible.  He did not seem to mind as long as he could chase critters.

On Tuesday July 5th the weather cleared up and was bright and sunny.  We decided to go to Fundy National Park.  We first stopped at Canadian Tire Store and got a bike rack for the car and other odds and ends.

We entered the park on the west side and drove to Wolfe lake at the entrance.   We then drove straight through and back out the northeast gate through Alma, a cute little town with a few restaurants and shopping on the water.

As you can see from the picture below,  it was low tide

Bill said Fundys Cape Enrage was an awesome view of the Bay of Fundy and we had to go see it.  On our way up we came to this beach and it was foggy so I got out and walked down and took a picture of the car fairly high up on the ridge.

We then continued our drive up to the Cape where there is a lighthouse on a cliff perched high above the Bay of Fundy.  We were looking forward to the view but when we got up there it was foggy and they now charged to get to the point.  We decided not to stay and went back down towards Alma to re enter the park.

We drove in and went straight to the Dickson Falls Trail

This trail first led down to the bottom where the water flowed continously.  It was completely shaded by 

white, paper and yellow birch trees. 

 Moss grew everywhere on the rocks along the water flow as we walked on the boardwalk next to it. 

Eventually the boardwalk took us up to the waterfall which was stunning.

After viewing the Dickson falls for a few minutes we continued on the trail back up to the parking area and drove up to the next trailhead.

It was too hot in the car to leave unlucky Lucky so I emptied my backpack and put him in it...it looks like he is trying to climb out but he did mind it at all.

At first the extra 10 pounds was okay but after two hours my neck was feeling it..

Matthews Trailhead was a 4.5 km trail that took about two hours.  It was both sunny and shady but we were walking downhill and Bill of course had to mention that when going down you eventually have to come back up!

This trail had some beautiful growth in it.

We came to the junction where the views of the Bay of Fundy were magnificent.

This park was about one and 1/2 hours north of where we were staying but the elevation was higher.

There were several areas that had the roots of the trees exposed so you had to be careful not to trip on them.

We finished the hike then headed towards the next area of the park.

This was Pointe Wolfe and the sign said "from industrial space to natural place".  This was the location of a sawmill back in the 1800's

Here is Ty doing a balancing act (Bill put him there, not me!)

We drove through the covered bridge and parked the car.  We crossed the street where the Shiphaven trail began.  It was mostly a boardwalk through the trees and along the cliffs with the Wolfe River leading out to the Bay of Fundy below.   There was about 1 1/2 miles of boardwalk that we walked on to get down to the beach area.

Bill was amazed at the amount of wood that was used to build this boardwalk all the way down to this beach.

I took the picture above from down by the low tides edge.  Bill thinks it is probably six feet deep where I was standing at high tide.  

A light rain started so we climbed back up the boardwalk where we could see the fog rolling in. 

In case you can't read it it says "When one tugs at a single thing in nature he finds it attached to the rest of the world".  It was also written in French on the next rail over. 

We got in the car and drove to a picnic area where we saw this woodchuck.

After heading to the bottom of the park to start heading back to St. Martins, we stopped one last time at one of the beaches.  

We got back to the campground after dark but it had been a good day of hiking and sightseeing.

On Wednesday our last full day in New Brunswick, Bill put the bikes on our new bike rack on the car and we headed just up the road 7 km to the Fundy Trail.   At the entrance we paid the fee and got a map of the area. 

When we started the trail it was mostly downhill but there were some areas where we had to bike up the hill and my gears were giving me some trouble.  We stopped to rest and I was enjoying the sun.

I had to use my brakes most of the time going down these hills....

The views were really nice from the well maintained hiking and biking trails 

We came to this area of the trail where you could go down the walkway to the beach area.

This tree had debris from the ocean that must have been part of a beach cleanup

He thought he was funny trying to put the seaweed on me

Bill was explaining to me how the beavers gnaw at the wood and strip the bark off of it.  See Bill... I was listening!!!!

We then biked down the hill to a really nice visitor center that overlooked the Salmon River.

Just past the center was this swinging bridge which took us over the Salmon River.  

Bill walked out onto the rocks in the middle of the River which was low at the time

We spent a little time here enjoying the sound of the rushing water over the rocks and the coolness of the river.

We then started our ascent up the road which was so steep I could not ride my bike, I had to walk it up.  These are the times I realize how out of shape I really am!!!!

The sign tells it like it is....you can't really tell by the pictures how steep it was.

We also had to battle the wind which had picked up in the last hour.  I was exhausted by the time we got back to the car.  Bill loaded them up and we finished the rest of the trail by stopping at each look off by car.

We first went to the highest point on the Trail.

Looking down at the Salmon River where we had been an hour before.

This was called Long Beach

We then went down towards the entrance to the park and came to the Fuller Falls Cable Stairs and Lookout.

These were the cable stairs where alot of them where not even touching the ground.

You would never see this in a National Park in the U.S.A.

After the Falls we stopped at the Pot Rock trail and walked down to the viewing area

They had four viewing platforms from south to north along the cliffs here so we walked to all of them for the different views.

As we were walking back up the trail, the bugs were starting to come out so we walked as fast as we could to get out of there.  Bill said any longer and we would be bitten up good.  We were glad to get back to the car when we did.

We got back to the campground and enjoyed the view of the moon and the sunset.  This was our last evening here as we were leaving in the morning for Halifax, Nova Scotia.