Into St John, New Brunswick

Today we made the 170 mile trip across the Canadian border then onto St John in New Brunswick. We are staying here two nights at a downtown city park, it is just a very large parking lot covered in gravel. It is only two miles at the most off the expressway but it’s a twisty curvy hilly two miles. I do not think there is a straight 2 blocks road in this city due to the hills & water. After we arrived and were set up we went with Stan & Connie to the parks restaurant for a late lunch, we sat on the patio overlooking the beach & lake.

Acadia National Park & Bar Harbor

Today we took a bus trip to Acadia National Park & Bar Harbor, it was the first event on our RV caravan trip to the Canadian Maritime Provinces. We went up Cadillac Mountain which is the first place in the USA to see daylight half of every year. No, we were NOT there at 4:45am to see it. It's the tallest mountain on the east coast until you get down to Rio de Janeiro, so we were told. You can see the sand bar at low tide, this is where Bar Harbor gets its name We also saw Thunder Hole but today it was calm and more like Hummer Hole. Water comes into a natural opening and cave in the rocks and can put on a good show during a storm. We stopped at a restaurant/gift shop and had some locally made Blueberry soda, one was enough. At the turn of the century the two round top mountains visible from the outside dining area were rather “risqué”. Not now…..boob hills.
We then were dropped off in Bar Harbor for a couple hours for lunch & to explore. Moose are popular and you can see that Judy found a friend in a shop & there was even one on a rooftop by the park.

Lumberjack display

Judy was bored and checked out the local activities and found a lumberjack competition/display a mile from the campground.....we ended up with about 20 of us from the caravan who are here at the campground going. The activities included, axe cutting, chainsaw cutting & carving, pole climbing, sawing, log rolling and I'm sure I forgot a few others.

Trenton, Maine preping for the caravan

Today we mover 170 miles to Trenton, Maine where we are all gathering for the Canadian Maritime caravan. We decided to go in two days early and many of us are there already. Here we are sitting around a campfire. The weather has been a little cloudy, damp & chilly but there's no snow.

Saco, MAine

Today we traveled to Maine, a short 54 mile trip. Judy checked out a full size chocolate Moose. It gets a new coat of chocolate every year to keep it fresh.

Whale watching & sand sculptures

I stayed home today nursing an upset stomach due to a bad clam. Judy went with the rest of the gang to Salisbury beach where there were some sand sculptures to be photographed. After that they all went on a whale watching cruise. Unfortunately the whales were further away and moving for their photo session.

Glouster & Rockport

Today we all drove the back roads down to Glouster to check out the well known fishing town. The statue of the fisherman is dedicated to the almost 5400 know seamen lost at sea since 1719, and they are all named by year lost. We also stopped at a small park where we could watch boats from the fishing fleet coming & going out to sea.

Our next stop was the artist colony Rockport. We wanted to find the Chowder House but alas, it is gone. We did have a nice lunch overlooking the water.